ESTHAOPPEN’S TACITURNITY AS AN INIMITABLE TECHNIQUE OF SOCIAL PROTEST IN THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
ESTHAOPPEN’S TACITURNITY AS AN INIMITABLE TECHNIQUE OF SOCIAL PROTEST IN THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

Summary/Abstract: Arundhati Roy’s Man-Booker award winning novel, The God of Small Things (1997), which is armed with the invincible incorruptibility of its twins Esthappen and Rahel, depicts the trauma of the children born out of a mixed parentage. If Estha’s ordeal can be traced back to his childhood experience of sexual molestation, then definitely, a pristine “Esthappen unknown” is tormented by the separation of his parents and the brutal killing of his role model. Estha’s inaccessibility of a cognitive and conscious knowledge about this traumatic experience ultimately turns him into a reticent personality. The present research paper argues in detail that Estha’s taciturnity is actually, a unique way of remonstration against the societal atrocity.

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