A FEMINISTIC AND HUMANITARIAN APPROACH TO ARUNDHATI ROY’S “THE GREAT INDIAN RAPE – TRICK I” AND “THE GREAT INDIAN RAPE – TRICK II”

Abstract

Arundhati Roy is very critical about the establishment of Indian Womanhood in the film. In her perspective when a woman becomes ‘Womanhood’, she ceases to be real. She is more of a humanist than a feminist, a human being who has concern for fellow human beings. The film just portrays Phoolan Devi as a rape victim and a victim of the caste conscious, male chauvinistic Indian society. But in Roy’s view Phoolan Devi is more a human being than just a ‘woman’. She also has all the emotions and desires like other human beings. Roy examines the deconstruction of the caste system and the patriarchy in India together with the implications of belonging to a patriarchal society, which she reflects in her narratives. Furthermore, she attempted to portray the unfairness and the difficulties that Indian women must face due to their condition of being women.