Use Of The Twins Misconception Of Adulthood In The God Of Small Things
The Childlike Twins’ Misconception of Adulthood
In The God of Small Things, author Arundhati Roy’s use of the twins motif helps to imbricate memories and flashes back and forth to create a familiar and changed story by combining different events in time. The twins, Rahel and Estha, understand the world as simple through the eyes of childhood, but through the experience of adulthood, they lack their innocence when trying to rebuild sense of their history, and to regain their relationship with each other.
The twins reunite back in India at the age of 31, and receives a different point-of-view with each other, and the world, from learning as children to experiencing adulthood. Roy claims “In those early amorphous years when memory had only just …show more content…
As though they were a rare breed of Siamese twins, physically separate, but with joint identities” (4-5). This quote explains how there is “no” chronological “End”, but skips between “separate” time periods, to re-experience past events and connect them to the future. Roy capitalizes the words “Beginnings”, “Ends”, “Everything”, and “Forever” to emphasize how important the twins’ relationship was when they were children, and are trying to enjoy and rebuild their close relationship while being adults. Rahel and Estha never thinks of themselves as one person in “separate bodies”, but thinks they are “We” and “Us” shows that they have united their lost parts. The twins ”joint identities” have also blurred their identities as their history sustains to haunt their future, and present. The separation of Rahel and Estha has changed their life, and …show more content…
Roy claims that “...two-egg twins were no different from ordinary siblings and that while they would certainly suffer the natural distress that children from broken homes underwent, it would be nothing more than that. Nothing out of the ordinary” (32). Roy’s reuse of the word “ordinary” shows how she wants readers to instantly determine that Rahel’s and Estha’s relationship is strange and odd. By using the words “broken homes” show the sad and dangerous experiences that are happening in the twins’ life, such as Estha's molestation, and Rahel's fear that Ammu loves her a little less. Roy develops the story in a way that fluctuates constantly from Estha’s and Rahel’s pre-fear childhood, to the post-fear lives that they have struggled in the past. Roy believes, “Just a blink of the Earth Woman's eye. That Worse Things had happened. That Worse Things Kept happening. But they would find no comfort in the thought” (54). Roy's use of the words“ just a blink” shows how fast the twins experienced life separately and affected their views on the world. “No comfort” appears as if there was no hope to restarting their lives, and had no “thought” on how to preserve themselves and their culture. The tone in this quote was rapid, one event after another, like there was no stopping point, and “Things had happened” and “Kept
In The God of Small Things, author Arundhati Roy’s use of the twins motif helps to imbricate memories and flashes back and forth to create a familiar and changed story by combining different events in time. The twins, Rahel and Estha, understand the world as simple through the eyes of childhood, but through the experience of adulthood, they lack their innocence when trying to rebuild sense of their history, and to regain their relationship with each other.
The twins reunite back in India at the age of 31, and receives a different point-of-view with each other, and the world, from learning as children to experiencing adulthood. Roy claims “In those early amorphous years when memory had only just …show more content…
As though they were a rare breed of Siamese twins, physically separate, but with joint identities” (4-5). This quote explains how there is “no” chronological “End”, but skips between “separate” time periods, to re-experience past events and connect them to the future. Roy capitalizes the words “Beginnings”, “Ends”, “Everything”, and “Forever” to emphasize how important the twins’ relationship was when they were children, and are trying to enjoy and rebuild their close relationship while being adults. Rahel and Estha never thinks of themselves as one person in “separate bodies”, but thinks they are “We” and “Us” shows that they have united their lost parts. The twins ”joint identities” have also blurred their identities as their history sustains to haunt their future, and present. The separation of Rahel and Estha has changed their life, and …show more content…
Roy claims that “...two-egg twins were no different from ordinary siblings and that while they would certainly suffer the natural distress that children from broken homes underwent, it would be nothing more than that. Nothing out of the ordinary” (32). Roy’s reuse of the word “ordinary” shows how she wants readers to instantly determine that Rahel’s and Estha’s relationship is strange and odd. By using the words “broken homes” show the sad and dangerous experiences that are happening in the twins’ life, such as Estha's molestation, and Rahel's fear that Ammu loves her a little less. Roy develops the story in a way that fluctuates constantly from Estha’s and Rahel’s pre-fear childhood, to the post-fear lives that they have struggled in the past. Roy believes, “Just a blink of the Earth Woman's eye. That Worse Things had happened. That Worse Things Kept happening. But they would find no comfort in the thought” (54). Roy's use of the words“ just a blink” shows how fast the twins experienced life separately and affected their views on the world. “No comfort” appears as if there was no hope to restarting their lives, and had no “thought” on how to preserve themselves and their culture. The tone in this quote was rapid, one event after another, like there was no stopping point, and “Things had happened” and “Kept