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Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things reveals a complex relationship between individuals and the historical and cultural forces that shape them and their society. In Roy’s novel, a “Big God”
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Jason Dondero English 1B May 2, 2006 The God of Castes, Cultures, and Nations Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things reveals a complex relationship between individuals and the historical and cultural forces that shape them and their society. In Roy's novel, a "Big God" has control over the large happenings of the world, the "vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation (20)." In contrast, it is a "Small God" that has control over the individual lives caught up in events too powerful and large for these individuals to understand and to change. This Small God is "cozy and contained, private and limited (20)," watching over people for whom "Worse Things" are always happening. Individuals ruled by the symbolic Small God withdraw away from mass movements, while at the same time their abuse makes them "resilient and truly indifferent (20)." The novel takes place in modern...
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