The object of the research is a novel entitled The God of Small Things
written by Arundhati Roy. The study focuses on the sociological aspect of the
novel. The major problem of this study is to depict how is Incest and Cultural
Values reflected in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Thing novel? The
objectives of the study are to analyze the structural elements of the novel and to
analyze the novel based on the sociological perspective.
This research is the qualitative approach. The data sources are divided
into two, namely primary data source and secondary data source. The primary
data source is the novel itself. The method of the data collection is documentation
research. The technique of data analyzes is descriptive analyzes.
The results of the research show the following conclusions. Firstly, based
on the structural analysis, Arundhati Roy wants to deliver a message to the reader
that incest or the forbidden love in The God of Small Things occurs because of
social contexts. Secondly, based on the sociological analysis it shows that
Arundhati Roy reflects the people in that time were still living under colonial rule
and the caste system
