M.K.
Bhavnagar University
Name:
Asmita Gond
SEM:
4(M.A English)
Bath
Year: 2014- 2016
Roll
no – 1
Enrollment
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Paper
name: The new literature
Assignment
Topic:
The
'White Tiger' is a novel which describes the greed of a man into the
rapidly changing the world
The novel 'The white Tiger
' is written by Arvind Adiga so let's take an introduction of the
novelist Arvind Adiga.
Arvind Adiga is the
winner of Man Booker prize 2008 for his debut novel 'The White Tiger'
. 33 years old Adiga is a Journalist and author by profession. He is
Australian citizen of Indian Origin.
Apart from the White
Tiger Adiga has written two novels namely.
1. Between the
Assassinations and
2. Last man in Tower
So let's see that how
the novel describes a greed of man in a rapidly changing world.
Balram as an Anti-hero:
Balram got anti-hero, complex character assessment, a can driver, an entrepreneur and a
murderer rolled into one in the novel
- a can driver
- an entrepreneur
- a murderer
- anti-hero
- complex character
Vikram Halwai a rickshaw
puller is born and raised in driver in the darkness of the rural
India. His family is too poor for him to be able to finish school.
Dispite being promised a scholarship Balram instead is forced to
break coals and table in a Dhanbad tea shop. His family neither gave
him a name nor a date of birth.
But he found that to
work into a Tea shop will call not give him Anything and so he has
join working as a driver from Mr. Ashok who is land lord into
Laxmangarh. And with it Balram enter into the glamorous world. He
found that how Ashok brings his girlfriend Pinki onto the mall and so
that glamor has started to attracting Mr. Ashok's driver Balram.
And with it Balram has
first time felt
“ relation between
master and slave”
Balram get aware
increasingly with immense world and opportunity all around him and
contrast between master and slave. So Balram found the to do murder
is the way to release from the servitude and so he has murdered
Mr.Ashok and after the murder Balram flees to Banglore with his
nephew Dharam. There Balram used the loot to own Taxi company. He was
changes his name to Ashok Sharma and become a wealthy antrepreneur in
India new technological society. So in this way Balram was become a
murderer or we can say a criminal, which shows a greed of a man into
the changing world.
With it one idea and
thought comes into my mind is that there is only one thing which can
give us freedom and that is to live life without fear and fear is
biggest enemy into the human being. So if the door was always open so
we have to grab each and every opportunities which comes into our
life.
Introduction
and the plot of the novel “The White Tiger':
The 'White Tiger' is the
debute novel by Indian Author Arvind Adiga. It is one of the most
powerful book also an amazing and angry novel about injustice and
power.
It created different
Indias:
“ an India of light
and and India of darkness which is focused by the novelist
articulating the voice of silent majority, trying to dismantle the
discrimination between the big bellies and the small bellies.
Balram Halwai the
protagonis is typical voice of underclass and metaphorically described
as “ rooster coop” and struggle as set free from age old slavery
and exploitation.
The
novel provides a darkly comical view of modern day in India through
the narration of its protagonist Balram Halwai. Balram loved in
village call Laxmangarh Bihar and the son of the poor family.
He
has also written four short stories like...
1.
The sultan battery
2.Smack
3.Last Christmas in Bandra and
4.
The elephant yorker.
Adiga's
writing put in a pistachio shell is unapologetic it presenting a
blending brilliant and brave mosaic Indian life, his writing is faced
fast peaced and dark.
The
author also praised to his ability to drive the darkest races of
human nature and present the grim side of an individuals personality
is an quality grim universe.
These
days there are just two castes:
“ men
with big bellies and man with small bellies.
“eat
or Get Eaten up”
It
means that the rich people will never get any crime into their own
but they suppressed others who were poor. And because of the greed to
get money and become richer and richer is shows greed of a man.
Into
the real world we will found that there are biggest people like
Ambani, Tata and also Billgates how can we forget Vijay Malya who has
a lot amount of money but through their will never get fulfilled and
they want more and more money by hook or krook and that was the
biggest example of the greed of a man into changing the world.
Balram
is the mouth piece of Arvinf Adiga the narrative force in the story
gets ironic – pungent and sardonic as it proceeds. In the later
part of the story, a dismal and somber atmosphere provides.
Socio
economic crises is revealed through the chain of incidents. The
character of rich is described as fearless and the character of poor
is poor is is described as fearful and so to come into the rich world
Balram has done crime.
Adiga
tried to make it clear that in the bginning Balram only concerns was
the money that Ashok was taking for some minister and he had little
intention to kill Ashok. Balram even had his own logic behind
stealing the money. As he was watching the red bag filled up with
money. As he was watching the red bag his eyes were appears like....
“ A
ct watching its prey”
Ant
it also shows a greed of Balram to become rich into the world.
City
life is the biggest attraction for Balram:
In
city life what we will found so it is simple for those people who
lives into the cities.But here we will also found contrast between a
city people and village people because both have different image into
their mind about city life.
According
to city people they think that city gives money but hard work also
necessary. In city everything will get easily but for that a person
has to have good job and work. And city people were spending their
money into watching movies and other things like to buy branded
mobiles which not easy because it needs money . And so for that a
city living people sometimes doing crimes also, which breaks the law
of city life and it evokes greed into the people.
According
to village people city is a place where one can earn money and live
their life happily but a village people does not know that city has
everything but they get it by corruption and crime . But it was not
understand by village eple because that was out of understanding from
village living people.
And
Balram Halwai was one of them who has first thought that city life
like Delhi is a place which gives Balram name , fame and money, but
after realizing that he was mere a slave into the hands of Mr. Ashok
he has started to think into the another way and he was attracted
towards money and prosperous life and so he has murdered Mr. Ashok
and it shows greed into a person into the changing world.
Balram
finds tyranny of police and often games , sexual affluence and all
types of crimes were common in Delhi but he does not indulge herself
in any except killing his master. Such was his new morality Balram is
highly ambitious the story of his progress from a humble native
Village land to a man with the ambitions is highly tantalizing. As
Mackbeth's ambition could not have been fulfilled without removing
king Dunkan from his way so Balram's ambition could not have been
fulfilled without removing his multi- millionaire master. He does not
justify his action or morality after the murder.
Adiga
trasmitted of reality be it good or bad indifferent cruel , mean or
unimplementable. The novelist explore a vanishing India where there
is complete want of understanding between the high and law rural and
urban life of the rich and poor.
Marriage
in India , marriage as a biggest greed for money
Marriage
plays key role into Indian society as well as novel. When Balram's
cousin get engaged his family “ get screwed'' with a large dowry
they can not afford so to save his reputation and marriage the family
has to take out a loan from the stork Balram is forced to dropout the
school and work in a tea shop to help raise the money to pay back the
doubt trigging the events of the rest of they story.
If
we talk about some countries of India like U.P, Bihar and Karala we
will found that people doing corruption even into marriage also , by
asking a lot amount of dowery from bride's father. And they has to
give dowry because without it marriage will not possible and that
same thing we will found into the novel 'The White Tiger'. A dowry
system can breaks the construction of a family , a nation , a dream
and a ritual also. And it all are because of the greed of money.
Impact
of Globalization:
Globalization is the biggest issue of the present age. And with the impact of globalization people were attracted towards city life and creating the big job and business.
For
some it is cover the concept for global capitalism and imperialism
and is accordingly condemned as another form of imposition of the
logic of capital the market on ever more region of the world and
spheres of life. For others it is the continuation as freedom
autocracy and happiness.
But
the critics see the impact of globalization as a harmful bringing
about increased domination and controlled by the wealthy over the
poor thus, increasing the hegemony of the “haves” over “have-
notes”.
Which
is related to attention towards money and wealth. If we talk about Tm
Friedman the phrase 'The world is flat' is that the global
competitive playing field is being leveled it now possible for more
of the people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time with
more other people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time
with the more other people on more the different corner of the planet
and on a more equal footing that at any previous time in that at any
previous time in the history of the world”.
So
we can say that Friedman's analysis of the world is flat means people
were restricted by rules and regulations but it can be breaks by the
effect of the people because rules are made to break which will
broken by Balram Halwai . Which shows the greed of the people which
can be proceed towards full of a people and into the criminal world.
Circumstances
into the progress:
Balram
can not see the stones being thrown at animals is forced by the
circumstances to be a murderer. After murdering Ashok he remain
useful for four weeks and he says....
“ I
am not a politician or a parliamentarian not one of those external or
extraordinary men who as if nothing had happened.”
It
means that Balram does not lost the mobility of his soul even after
becoming an entrepreneur in Banglore. He justifies his choice of
master as he has alternative to realize climb the ladder of the
success. It also seems as if he wants to take the revenge upon all
the masters for the age old exploitation of their servants.
So
here we can see that a greed of a man will be not destructed and his
soul will be also not turn into thewrong destruction but it can be
deal with the representation the world be able to feel sorry for
whatever he has done during his own and other that was shows reality
of that was of the character Balram halwai.
“ Haven't
I struggle in the struggle that were poor man , not to take the
lashes your father look.'
It
means that Balram does lost the mobility of his soul even aftr
becoming an entrepreneur in Banglore. He justifies his choice of
master as he has no other or alternative to realize his dream to to
climb the ladder.
Also
the novelist explores the Vanishing India where there is complete
want of understanding between high and low rural and urban life the
rich and poor the old morality and the new morality also. So the
world is devied into two parts where one is suffering and another is
enjoying whole life.
Kiran
Desai 'The inheritance of loss Arvind Adiga s The white tiger ,
Arundhati Roy's The god of small things depicted background India all
the three talk about deprived and frustration upper and lower class
struggle.
Thus,
we can say that Adiga 's The white tiger is also related with the
same ideas. India which we will find into the novel of Chetan Bhagat
which shows the greed of of a man into changing world because here
everybody wants to be strong and powerful by hook and crook because
money and richness is always get first priority and power people has
to feel slavery.
So
to be a rich and powerful is the main point shows a greed of every
human being like Balram Halwai.
Conclusion:
“ A
book must the Axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
----
By Franz Kaika
“ Art
is a mirror to reflect reality , but a hammer to shape it.”
-----
By Bertoll Brecht
So
we can say that in the novel 'The white tiger' we will found that how
the relations , thought and behaviours are gettingchange by changing
the world and that shows the real greed of a man who wants to be
richer than than others . But that greed will be becomes the fall of
any human being.
And
this novel is the best example of it
“ When
we are show scenes of starving children in Africa with a call for us
to do something to help him the underlying ideological message is
something like.”
“ Don't
think don't politicize forget about the true causes of their poverty,
just act contribute money so that you will not have to think.”
----
By Slavoj Zizox
Works Cited
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<http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/16/booker-prize>.
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<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Kapur-t.html?_r=0>.