Abstract

This paper offers an ecofeminism interpretation of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, emphasizing the novelist's use of backchannel communication themes and the muted group theory to signify different modalities of Nature's insurrection. The author also uses apostrophization to obfuscate dialectical pairings in Nature. This extends Cartesian dualism to the nature/culture divide. Roy's portrayal of the oppressed people includes the underclass of humanity, with the picture of the lady trapped in immanence serving as the main theme. In addition, the author alludes to plants and animals that needed a voice to convey the natural world's narrative or an intrinsic sense via people. This is similar to an apologue in reverse, where the narrative of humans is conveyed through the experiences of animals. As Roy foregrounds symbiotic ties in nature via linkages of metaphor and metonymy that demonstrate fundamental kinship principles, these interactions gain strength. The female characters' survival instinct is defined in terms of ecology and represents the breaking down of barriers in the dialectical dyad between society and nature.