Essays on Arundhati

An Analysis of Disgrace and The God of Small Things

The novels Disgrace by renowned author John Maxwell Coetzee, and The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, introduce several important concepts that play a crucial role in encouraging the readers to take a step back and reflect on themselves. Reading these novels go beyond the understanding of different facts of life that may have gone unnoticed or unattended amidst the people’s daily struggles. Through a few key characters that had the stories churning, the novels were able to tackle issues of sexuality, the morals and ethics attached to it, of getting old, of social isolation, of family ...

Book Review on Arundhati Roy’s award-winning novel, God of Small Things

In the beginning, the family takes a drive to Cochin in order to pick Margaret Kochama and Sophie Mol from the airport and to watch The Sound of Magic. During the drive, we are able to learn about the political volatility in the area and how the Indian society is involved in the dictation of each person’s place in the society. Here, we are also able to know more about how the characters relate to each other and exactly how they interact with each other. The family drives in great anticipation of watching The Sound of Magic and of ...

CRITIQUE OF “THE ALGEBRA OF INFINITE JUSTICE”

The Algebra of infinite justice is an article written by Arundhati Roy. Arundhati was born on Novemeber 24, 1961 in Shillong to a Bengali Hindu father and a Christian mother. She won a Booker Prize for her first novel-The God of Small Things in 1997. After that she wrote on many topics on politics, nuclear weapons s in India, corruption among others. One of her writing is “The algebra of infinite justice” where she criticizes the role of USA in the beginning, propagation, and methods to fight terrorist. She claims the USA is created terrorist and is attempting to destroy them. She ...

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Discussion The reality of the matter is that gender discrimination has been a matter debated upon for too long with little action emanating from such debates. As a social phenomenon, gender discrimination has great sociological significance and concern. While this broadly reflects the discrimination of either gender, the discrimination against women and female children is particularly pervasive the world over. The novel The God of small things reminds the reader of this stark reality, and goes further to help one fathom the dynamics, intricacies and the inept results of the social vice. Gender discrimination takes many forms and manifests ...

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Terrorism are acts of violence that are committed by groups that perceive themselves as having been deceived by some eminent historical wrong. A terrorist group stage unforeseen attacks on civilian targets with the aim of sowing fear and perplexity. The groups normally do not have a formal connection with the government but it receives both moral and financial support from sympathetic governments.

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Arundhati Roy says that most of the terrorist attacks that have costed many lives and massive loss of property is sue to the war for power. Groups and governments are struggling to get power and the war against ...

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Indian society has several different facets and aspects and The God of Small Things is a novel with these aspects intertwined together. Although there are subtle references to the caste system and colonial imperialism, the novel is a remarkable tour de force in that it describes what Indians went through as they came to grips with ever changing social and economical realities. The novel actually shifts around in time and takes place in a town called Aymanam in what is now Kerala state. The setting shifts back from 1969 to 1993 where twins are reunited after a long absence from seeing each ...

The elements of ethos, pathos and logos are all essential components of argument; they are vital ways of conveying a message in a way that a)makes sense and b) is emotionally effective. Three writers in particular were skilled at using these aspects of argument: Martin Luther King, Jr., Jim Hightower and Arundhati Roy. In their respective works, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," "Rebellion Is What Built America" and "Come September," ethos, pathos and logos are used to great effect to create emotional and logical appeals for their arguments for the benefit of a potentially hostile audience.

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a famous open letter ...

Traditionally, wars were fought over land, wealth, feuds and women. However, this was a time when nations were not capable of triggering global. Industrialization and the development of weapons technology changed this drastically and the two great World Wars are testimonies to the impact that conflict in one part of the world can have on global politics.

Hence, war, post the World Wars, became increasingly about defense than offence. As the Cold War ended with the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., the U.S. foreign policy, that had for long been focused on containing communism, lost direction1. The new grand strategy that ...