'THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS' - Significance of the Title

  Arundhati Roy was a renowned and well reputed novelist of Modern era. She wrote about sexism, social matters and suppressed sex i.e. women. Her novel ‘The God of Small Things’ was published in New Delhi in 1997. The title of every literary piece of work has its peculiar and specific significance and importance. Every reader knows that the total substance of any piece of work is capsuled in a pithy and pulpy title. Simply, we may say that a brief title always reflects what lies in the pages of a book. Therefore, it is generally assumed; “The title is an index of a book.” As far as the title of ‘The God of Small Things’ is concerned, it is highly connotated. Readers and critics have to exert their full mind to explore different implications it connotes. The title may be decoded in different ways. In 'The God of Small Things', ‘the god’ implies the provider of everything - big or small. On the other hand, ‘small things’ symbolizes the middle class or lower class of society. The ...