Essays on The White Tiger

In Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, there are many different themes and central ideas. These themes include: corruption, religion, the light, and the darkness. With these themes come symbols that further examine and support them. In the White Tiger animals serve as a symbol in the life of Balram, as well as the life of the citizens of India. These symbols, animals, demonstrate corruption with status and the importance of a given role in the society of India. The animals that are used for ...

Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) was the Man-Booker Prize winning first novel. It is written in an epistolary style. The style of the story is in first-person narrative style. The contemporary Indian English literature captures the threat of violence. The narrator discloses his personal history in a uniquely intimate, witty and lively voice. The White Tiger delivers an invincible central character and India bristling with economic possibility, competing loyalties and class ...

In The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Balram is initially portrayed as an appealing character despite informing us of the horrific crimes he has committed. His words, thoughts and deeds reflect his good nature in the beginning. But by the end of the novel, Balram is overtaken by impurity and corruption. He was not born evil, ultimately it was a change caused by the culture of India. We are given the two opposing descriptions of India, The Darkness and The Light, which demonstrates the idea ...

Balram Halwai, the anti-hero protagonist Aravind Adiga’s epistolary novel is a revolutionary in Bangalore. First, to be a revolutionary, you have to be special and Balram is the White Tiger of his generation. Second, Balram starts as a servant and climbs his way up the ladder and becomes a master. Lastly, Balram begins the novel as a social entrepreneur and then at the end becomes a business entrepreneur. As a revolutionary, you cannot be an average Joe who wants to make a change; you need ...

The White Tiger. The name itself is characteristic to the whole book's purpose. Aravind Adiga carefully weaves together vibrant symbols to provide the reader with a profound understanding of the book. He exposes corruption throughout all of India's institutions. While corruption breeds corruption, a greater revolution remakes society. This is a fault in Balram's character as he is certain that in order for him to escape the corruption, he must become part of the system, adding to the quantity ...