Gender Sensitisation in ‘The God of Small Things’
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https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2021.v06.i12.030Keywords:
Gender, Sensitisation, discrimination, inequalityAbstract
This paper examines gender inequality and sensitisation as portrayed in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. It is almost a reality indeed that discrimination exists in society and each family. Through the character Ammu, the inequality and sensitisation are pictographically delineated. There are even women characters who dominate and suppress other women characters. We can realise that even today, women have no freedom to choose their careers or anything in their life.
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