The paper also depicts the mental agony of underprivileged class people, through the protagonist, who always remain in the margin due to their pathetic social and class condition, and commits a crime for self-discovery and uplifting their lot as Balram, the narrator of the novel explains, ―the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich.
mammon worship comes into fashion which leads to the corrosion of values and erosion of humanity.
In this context the present paper is an attempt to show that people are in the blind race of accumulating more and more wealth and consuming the materialistic pleasures to every possible extent. It is a realistic and graphic picture of vast sufferings and hopelessness of man with small bellies and nexus of master slave system. It is a passionate account of propensity among Indians to rise and rise higher, though at the cost of age old ethical values and beliefs-social, religious, cultural, economic and political. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation – and a startling, provocative debut.The present research paper is an attempt to study Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger in the light of Identity Crisis, cultural discrimination, political corruptions and inferiority complex in the socioeconomic and cultural areas. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society.Recalling The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, The White Tiger is narrative genius with a mischief and personality all its own. The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. About the bookĪ stunning literary debut critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society. Please allow notification and avoid private mode for this feature to work.
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