Shadows Of Forgotten Subalterns Character Analysis

Shadows of Forgotten Subalterns: Evolving New Identity in Arundhati Roy's TheGodofSmallThings
Dr. Archana
Abstract
Arundhati Roy's, novel removes a complicatedhistorical heritage observed with restraints and indignations. Its local fictional world extends into a universal one with its sensitive depiction of perennial conflicts and offers suitable fodder for its international readers. It has as it backdrops a social construction characterized by compulsions of a pervasive caste system.The oppressive system legitimizing social segregation and mutual exclusion has not been inverted by Marxism and Christianity. The very shape of the fictitioustale enlisting kid's linguistic idiosyncrasies through a brief recreation of their perspectives as against
Roy creates a demarcation between the suppresser and the suppressed in the third chapter of the novel and it is being titled as "The Big Man Laltain, Small Man the Mombatti". By the word 'Laltain' Roy defines the dominant class people and Mombatti refers to the lower class of the society. The two main characters of the novel Velutha and Ammu Create the Mombattis in the novel and all the other power exerting people, such as Chacko, Baby Kochamma and Comrade Pillai Come under the banner of Laltains. Velutha is a victim of marginalized Caste. He is the representation of the untouchable in the novel The God of Small Things. He is dark in colour and there is an irony within the nomenclature Velutha, as it signifies 'something White'. Comrade Pillai, who is supposed to safeguard the rights of the people, works against Velutha for reasons of
When Velutha was in police custody, Ammu appealed to police that Velutha was innocent. But Ammu was humiliated in the police station by the police inspector Thomas Mathew. The subalterns have no scope for convincing things. They have been compelled to maintain the age old tradition of silence by the Laltains. Both Velutha and Ammu failed in their effort to express to their authority. The Mombattis have never been permitted to raise their voice against Laltains, as they have been suppressed. Arundhati Roy in her novel The God Small Things has showed difficulties and the deplorable situations of the people who are segregated on the basis of their caste. During colonial period, caste segregation existed among the Keralites. And when Christianity Came with an option of casteless religion, some of the lower section people readily converted to that religion with an anticipation of living in a casteless society. They were never able to satiate their anticipation, as they had saved their lives from drowning into the