Arvind Adiga’s

The White Tiger

 Prepared by
 Mahyavanshi Bhavnesh s
 Hina Chauhan
 Monika makvana
 Important Points
 History  Power politics
 Identity  Social
 Symbols  Dislocation
 Hero  Myth
 Revenge  Economics
 Marxism  Corruption
 Class/Caste  Narcissism
 Religion  Enlightment
 Poor and Rich  Good/Evil
 Subaltern
 Themes
 Globalization
 China’s Relationship to India
 Lightness and Darkness
 Class/Caste
 Freedom
 Arvind adiga’s The White Tiger: a search for
Identity

 -Identity Cricis
 -Cultural discrimination
 -Political corruptions&Inferiority Complex
 -Identity as the Prime Concern in the novel through which
writer highlights most of the evils in the indian Societies.
 -Marginal tribes in the early free Indian Villages.
 -Adiga depicts both the downtrodden,unpleasent deprived place
and the highly developed cities like Delhi and Bangalore.
 -Marginalized people are usually discriminated ignored and
often suppressed on the basis of
race,gender,culture,religion,ethnicity,ocupation education,and
economy by mainstream.
 -The name “MUNNA” and the Given name “BALRAM”.
 The Hanuman Myth in Arvind Adiga’s the
White Tiger:
 Myth- master-servent relationship in the heroic age and that of
postmodern age.
 Rooster coop mentality of the Indians.
 Hanuman utterly obidient and respectful to his master.
 hanuman- as a shining example of how to serve your masters
with absolute fidelity,love and devotion.
 Religion is criticised by Karl Marx as the ‘Opiate of the Masses”.
 The Issue of Servitude.
 Balram as a most religious servant on Earth.
 Modern day Hanuman is as different as Modern Day Sita.
 Hanuman, necklace given by Sita- Modern Hanuman keeps
strong Bottle of Johnnie Walker Black to Murder his Master.
 Servant- Master relationship in arvind
adiga’s ‘The White Tiger’
 Relationships in day to day life.
 - Relations can be separated into negative and positive relationships.
 -The incedent when Balra m losts coin of one rupee.
 -Instructions by masters about Do’s and Don’ts.
 -Ashok and Pinky making fun of his pronounciation( Pizza-Pijja, Mall-Maal)
 -Humiliation by Master.(case of Drink and drive)
 -Marxist significance of the title ‘The White Tiger’
 -Tiger imprisoned in the cage is similar to law class imprisoned in the cage of
the suppressing class.
 -The circumstances and society of India is similar to the tiger which is bound
and chained in the cage.
 -Balram’s Materialistic tone throughout the novel.
 -Balram comes out of the cage and fights with the circumstances and achieves
the level of the Master,for him no matter how he achieves.
 Arvind adiga’s The White Tiger: A Mirror to
Socio-Political Malaise
 The White Tiger highlights the unglamourous yet real Picture of modern
India.
 -The Poor education system of India.
 -an India of Light And An India of Darkness
 -‘The White Tiger’ Name given by Inspector.
 - Dowry System
 -The Four landlords named as four animals.
 The Buffalo
 The Stork
 The Wild Boar
 The Raven
 -Corruption which hits any country the hardest.
 -Judicial system of India.
 -Drivers as a Scapegoats.
 Postmodernism
 Master narrative
 “The Moment you show cash , everyone
knows your Language”
 Auto fiction
• “Fiction because all memory is fictionalizing
 Poor and Rich
 Balaram Halwai is presented as modern Indian Hero in the midst of the economic
prosperity of India in the recent Past.
 -Balram as a representative of the poor in india Yearns for their Tomorrow.
 -He is not Only an Enterpreneure but also a roguish criminal remarkably capable of
self-justification.
 -Injustice&Inequality
 - Social discontent&Violence
 -Neo-Libral economi reforms in India.
 -Democratic Practice and Social Iniquality in India.
 -Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen examine the role of Democratic practice in
contemporary India.
 -Reading of ‘Murder Weekly’
 -Two kinds of India in Delhi (Prey&Predators)
 -Communication Gap is the symbol of Poor Rich divide that is fermenting to take
revange.
 -Balram as a Psychopath.
 Fashioning of Balram Halwai
 Main character Balram Halwai from the novel The White Tiger written by a
renowned Indian writer
 Aravind Adiga commits a severe crime. He murders his own master. This
becomes a turning point in his life from being a chauffeur to being a business
entrepreneur and tycoon. The way his identity is fashioned as result of his own
wishes and expectations and the surrounding controlling mechanisms and forces
that manipulate and alter his thought and perception is brimful of convoluted
incidents that take place before the murder. The concept of Self fashioning as
speculated and described by Stephen Greenbelt deals with fashioning by an
individual and the
 surrounding factors. The cultural and social forces act upon the mentality of an
individual and thus bring about a mutual understanding between the old-self and
new-self, and old-authority and new-authority. The process of self fashioning
goes through a tremendous procedure in Balram’s life.
  
 Autocracy to Outcry
 Unity in Diversity
 Fake Democracy
 Shining India??????????
 Voice of The People from “The Darkness”
 M.Q.Khan remarks that “The Book as a whole presents
the crude, dark and naked facts about India”
 Delhi: Illogically numbered houses and circuitous streets
 Car accident
 Loyal Servant
 Conclusion
Marvel Imagery : An Analogical Audit
 Darkness
 Uniform
 Democracy
 The Great Indian Rooster Coop
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