Thursday 4 February 2016

The White Tiger






How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The White Tiger?

In the novel Arvind Adiga  represents real India and also presented is salve mentality of Indian peoples. And also talk about the certain  cash, Satire on Education System, great Socialist, Marriage, and Lesson breaking coals and also talk about the Bronze statue of Gandhi leading the people from darkness to light.  Pollution, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, dirty politics , corruption, changing morality etc presented here.

In this story Balram talks about the darkness of India by saying that India is two countries in one
India of Light
India of Darkness

Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?

In this we can give the example of movie Slumdog Millionaire in this we can find this type of similarities. In India all young generation dream of every one to get success.

Example of prime minister of India

  • • "Any boy in any village can grow up to become the prime minister of India. That is his message to little children all over this land. . . Even a boy working and self-educating at tea-stall, breaking coals and wiping tables . .

• Working in a tea shop. Smashing coals. Wiping tables. Bad news for me, you say? To break the law of his land—to turn bad news into good news—is the entrepreneur's prerogative.”

3. "Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique,
deconstructive criticism aims to show that any text inevitably undermines
its own claims to have a determinate meaning, and licences the reader to
produce his own meanings out of it by an activity of semantic 'freeplay'
(Derrida, 1978, in Lodge, 1988, p. 108). Is it possible to do deconstructive
reading of The White Tiger? How?

 “ Any of several theories of literary criticism, as deconstruction or reader response that use post structuralist  methods but argues against the results of structuralism and hold that there is no one true reading of text”

One post struturalist said that language doesn’t but just reflect or record of world. When we go to deep into foundation of that thing we can deconstruct, subvert, undermine, blast it.

Yes, it is possible to possible to deconstructive reading of The White Tiger. help of some words like, in this book author himself uses this word like, “This book is Auto-Biography of half-baked Indians”. So how can we rely on the narrator who himself is half baked. It deconstructs the entire narrative.

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