The novel is a scathing criticism of Indian social conditions and shows that good can't be achieved through evil. It attempts to diagnose the maladies which drive him to get rich and subsequently he moves from one crime to another crime. This paper explores from socio-psychological perspective the simmering feelings of the protagonist and his seething anger against the rich people. It further interrogates the sociological issues and individual desires of a person which lead him to resort to crimes. This paper attempts to analyse the journey of Balram from a small city of Bihar to a metropolis, his repressive psyche and silences and fragmented self from psychoanalytic perspective.
His seething anger, simmering silence and vaulting ambition make him a rebel. Balram Halwai is a subaltern whose unspoken wishes, unfulfilled dreams led him to resort to violence and usurpation dismantling the moral fabrics of the society. The story of its protagonist named Balram Halwai, is the story of Indian society which is torn by the gaps between the rich and the poor. And what do the rich dream of? Losing weight and looking like the poor‖ (TWT 225).Īravind Adiga's " White Tiger " is a novel which has many layers of meaning and in every reading it opens up new trajectories of interpretation and interpellation. 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. 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.
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