Novel: The White Tiger
Here are my views
about the novel,
(1) Generally when we think about India one great image pops up in our mind. In the novel ‘The White Tiger’ Aravind Adiga puts opposite image of India means darker side of India but it the real. Globalization, religion, idea of God Hanuman as a servant, corruption, prostitution, murder, crime, poverty, politics, situation of village, life of city these all things shown by Aravind Adiga. River Ganga also negatively portrayed in the novel. So, it is the representation of India in the novel.
(2) Yes, I believe that Balram’s story is the archetype of all stories of ‘rags to riches’. Because Balram himself narrated his situation and then slowly and steadily he reaches at the top level and murders his master Ashok. In this world everyone crave for more money or more facilities. But main concern of the life is whether the person chooses a right path for reaches this higher level or not. But Balram believes that he has to climb this status and for this he chooses the path of dishonesty or amorality. But for him it is a right way to defeat his master. So, if we look at other perspective we find that he is individual thinker. He think that it is only the path for reaches the higher level.
(3) If we pick up any word it has various contexts and language itself is very complex. Because individual person think for their angle. Derrida’s ‘Deconstruction’ theory we can apply in this text ‘The White Tiger’. When we find any negative word or phrase in the novel we can easily deconstruct this idea. Here in this novel Balram used the word for himself as a ‘half-baked Indian’ and in this point we can deconstruct the idea.
(1) Generally when we think about India one great image pops up in our mind. In the novel ‘The White Tiger’ Aravind Adiga puts opposite image of India means darker side of India but it the real. Globalization, religion, idea of God Hanuman as a servant, corruption, prostitution, murder, crime, poverty, politics, situation of village, life of city these all things shown by Aravind Adiga. River Ganga also negatively portrayed in the novel. So, it is the representation of India in the novel.
(2) Yes, I believe that Balram’s story is the archetype of all stories of ‘rags to riches’. Because Balram himself narrated his situation and then slowly and steadily he reaches at the top level and murders his master Ashok. In this world everyone crave for more money or more facilities. But main concern of the life is whether the person chooses a right path for reaches this higher level or not. But Balram believes that he has to climb this status and for this he chooses the path of dishonesty or amorality. But for him it is a right way to defeat his master. So, if we look at other perspective we find that he is individual thinker. He think that it is only the path for reaches the higher level.
(3) If we pick up any word it has various contexts and language itself is very complex. Because individual person think for their angle. Derrida’s ‘Deconstruction’ theory we can apply in this text ‘The White Tiger’. When we find any negative word or phrase in the novel we can easily deconstruct this idea. Here in this novel Balram used the word for himself as a ‘half-baked Indian’ and in this point we can deconstruct the idea.
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