Poor-Rich Divide in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Titel:
Poor-Rich Divide in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Auteur:
A.J. Sebastian
Verschenen in:
Journal of alternative perspectives in the social sciences
Paginering:
Jaargang 1 (2009) nr. 2 pagina's 229-245
Jaar:
2009
Inhoud:
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, which was awarded theMan Booker Prize in 2008, is singular in its fictionalized portrayal of the relationship between Balram Halwai and his master Mr Ashok. The story exposes the poor-rich divide that surrounds India in the backdrop of economic prosperity, in the wake of the IT revolution. As Michael Portillo commented the novel “shocked and entertained in equal measure” (Portillo, 2008). Written in the epistolary form, the novel is a seven-part letter to the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, from Balram alias Ashok Sharma, a self-styled ‘Thinking Man / And an entrepreneur’ (TWT, 2008, p. 3). Balram the killer, metamorphoses into his master’s replica after his heinous crime. By crime and cunning, in the name of the social injustice due to existing rich-poor divide in India, Balram rules his entrepreneurial world. This paper attempts to trace the great poor-rich divide manifested through The White Tiger, having dangerous consequences, if unresolved.
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