cate system in arundhati roy god of small things

Arundhati roy god of small things talks about caste system,male dominated society ,and child sexual abuse.In a society in india people are usually discriminated in the name of caste system .people are labelled according to their caste system .In the novel we find velutha an untouchable.Usually certain works are meant for untouchable

like cleaning the lavatory etc.untouchable in order to escape the scourge of untouchability had joined the anglican church with the hope that they would be treated alike but to their dismay they had separate church ,separate sevices and separate priests .untouchable were not supposed to touch anything that touchabes touched.untouchables were not allowed to walk on public roads .They were not allowed to cover their upper bodies.They had to put their hands over their mouth when they spoke to divert their polluted breath away from those whom addressed.Where as in the case of veluthahe was expert in carpentary skill as well as in machines in the factory of paradse pickles but pravans were not meant to be carpenters but inspite of that velutha tries to climb the ladder of the society.mammachi paid velutha more than the other untouchables in the factory this made other untouchables to resent velutha.

shashi deshpande binding vine

It is a novel that talks about a rape victim kalpana.Rape is seen even in marriage in the case of urmi's mother in law mira through her poems she expresses her hatred of how her husband forced himself upon her.mira symblizes women who are forced in to loveless marriage and become victim to rape in marriage.The novel in general talks about a rape victim.when a girl or a women is rape she is seen as a disgrace in her family.Especially if is a unmarried girl the parents usually try to hush it up because they fear that no body would come to marry the raped girl girl .Thus in a country like india rape is usually hushed up .The blame is usually put on the girl rather than the man who committed it .thus rape victim donot come forward to report it either .thus through the character of kalpana the author emphasis on women to come forward to report rape.this can be seen in the case of urmi who comes forward to fight for the justice of rape victim kalpana .urmi stands for women of courage and strength.