Subjugation: A study of the women characters in Khalid Hosseini’s and Arundhati Roy’s novels
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This paper is a serious attempt to portray the exploitation and discrimination of women in the
patriarchal social systems of the Afghan society and the Indian subcontinent as delineated in the
novels of Khalid Hosseini and Arundhati Roy. In both the novels: A Thousand Splendid Suns and The
God of Small Things, the women share the common plight of suffering, where the male folk treat them
as mere objects and subject them to extreme oppression. The novelists rightfully depict the story of
these women, who show signs of resistance and try to thwart the male order but their struggle is
overwhelmed by the ideology of the male-dominated social systems.
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Exploitation, women, patriarchal resistance