| Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things is a story about love, filled with the pursuit of love. However, in the face of a mighty social tradition, in the limit of the Love Laws, the characters in the novel repeatedly broken the provisions of the Love Laws, exceeded the various limits, but all ended up drowning in love, are not out of the tragic fate. In this novel, the Love Laws and "love's cross-border" form a huge force field, in each other's game to show a strong tension.I try based on the Love Laws and "love's cross-border" two basis points, through in-depth mining the Love Laws' connotation and the characteristic, displaying characters about "love's cross-border" story, looking for find important images in the contains the reason of love can not obtain, to explore the novel's themes of love drowned.Text is divided into three chapters.The first chapter discusses the Love Laws which has the enormous influence in the novel. The first section outlines the Indian cultural traditions that the Love Laws rooted, showing the daily life of its norms of Indian society and its effects on love, marriage of profound impact. Sectionâ…ˇreveals the nature and content of the Love Laws, which stipulates the love, love how many, how to love and other aspects, not the method is worth a pound of law, with more powerful functions. Sectionâ…˘elaborates the features of the time lag, order functions and historical debt of the Love Laws, to display Love Laws on people's normative role.The second chapter shows a variety of transgression of love in the novel. Many characters in the novel pursuit of love, all more or less violated the Love Laws, transgresses the love boundaries. Four sections of this chapter describes respectively with Baby Kochamma's love across belief, Chacko's love across racial, Ammu's love across caste and twin brother and sister across the ethics of love.The third chapter analyzes the reasons of love drowned by digging the important images in the novel. Sectionâ… analyzes the Ayemenem House, which is the source of the tragedy made, decline, closed, full of dark shadows, is a symbol of ancient traditions, bound and imprisoned people's words and deeds. Sectionâ…ˇthrough discussing the image of Pappachi's moth, to reveal the human tragedy, revealing the implementation of devastation and torture in the name of love,also caused love drowned. Sectionâ…˘analyzes the Meenachal River as a metaphor of boundary. The river is the double line of geographical and psychological, with the symbol of cross-border, people crossing the river in order to follow love and desire, were punished for transgress boundaries, resulting in love and life fade away. |
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