Abstract

The paper concerns the personal and family life and the human relationship drifting apart in the modern life highlighted through the first novel by Arundhati Roy ‘The God of Small Things’. She introduces an awful vision of life of the characters belonging to the three generations of a family in Ayemenem (a district in Kerala). She shows that a marriage which seals the power of profound devotion ends up being social commitment. Nonetheless, the next generation finds a cold and dry marriage a burden fit to be disregarded. The marriage splits even before turning into a family in third generation. Moreover, this novel features the breaking of two noteworthy taboos; the inter-caste relationship and the incest. The novel can be termed as rebellious.