Course: - M.A. English
Semester: - 4
Batch: - 2015-2017
Enrolment no: - PG15101007
Submitted to: - Smt. S.B.Gardi Dept. of English MKBU
Email id: - choudharydivya400@gmail.com
Paper no: - The New Literature
Abstract:
This study has investigated how Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker
Prize winner debut novel The
White Tiger (2008) has protested against the popular image of a shiny
India. This analysis is important because it has identified how
The politicians have misled the people of India by creating
a wrong logic of progress and improvement. Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger is a socio-political critic of modern India because it
contributing and interpreting the life and culture of the people of rural and
urban India by interpreting some metaphors.
In his Book the White Tiger Adiga talks about the
discrimination between rich and poor. He also talked about that how rich people
are exploiting the poor’s from centuries and how they are neglected by the
power position. But in today’s time the center of focus of the new writers,
journalists are raising this issue and bring justice to them.
There are many books and films which are coming out with the
new idea of “Shining India”, and carried the life of underclass people who are
neglected by the power position. In this Arvind Adiga also took a bold step by
narrating the stories of the unprivileged people who live in the “Darkness of
the society”. The central theme of the novel is to diagnose the Indian Society
which has many burning issues like “Illiteracy, Poverty, Unemployment, Caste
discrimination, Corruption and most important population. The result of India’s
freedom has been expended by the insignificant minority and the other of the
population has been harshly changed.
The story of The
White Tiger was the life and struggle of Balram Halwai, a little guy, in
his quest for economic, social and cultural freedom. It was a difficult
struggle as he had been “confined behind bars of class, caste, illiteracy,
zamindar system and poverty”. Here Balram referred to his village as
‘darkness’, full of “sadness, Poverty and illiteracy”. Here Balram also tried
to uncover the struggle of the working class who are working under overpowering
poverty.
Here we can see many burning issues of India for example:
1) Socio-Political
Conditions of Rural India
2) Socio-Political Conditions of Urban India
3) The Evils of Caste System
4) Dowry System
5) Illiteracy
The journey from poverty towards richness is not a journey
from ‘darkness’ into ‘light’. The narrator used the
Metaphor ‘dark’ several time to show the rough side of the
rich people. In this novel “Darkness” is used as a metaphor particularly for
“Corruption”.
Finally Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger was not only talking about the ‘dark’ living conditions of
the miserable poor, but also representing that how the rich had been
manipulating the country for their own self-centered end.
The novel had played a major role in promoting the awareness
of the people about the ‘darker' aspects of both the poor and the rich
representing their deep defeats.
Key
Words: Poverty, Darkness, Caste system, taking advantage, Discrimination.
Much of the critical and popular
controversy surrounding the 2009 film Slumdog Millionaire is derived from
misconceptions over the representational possibilities of popular film, as well
as the great national background of film criticism. It is thrilled when it
meets the Mumbai slum, this essay debates that Slumdog explores the role of
informal knowledge in the navigation of changing urban backgrounds. In this
way, it is not despite, but through, the film's rejection of realist common
conventions that it offers its interpretation of the city. Police Constable in
Slumdog Millionaire revolution of excitement, commentary and controversy
surrounding the film Slumdog Millionaire (2009) in India and elsewhere calls
for a careful analysis of the possibilities and drawbacks of international
cultural production. Film critics and prominent individuals like have criticized
the film, if not dismissed it outright, for its repeating of old stereotypes of
urban Indian squalor and backwardness. Like most representations of urban
poverty, films such as this have the potential to create a sense of a troubled
place "out there", disconnected from the comforting world of the
viewer. Slumdog contains elements to support this kind of critique, but along
with them exist another set of images, plot devices, filmic elements and characterizations
that are not so easily plotted onto western fantasies of India. This is not to
say the film is not an imaginary - but rather, that within imaginary, there can
be elements of truth. Slumdog and The White Tiger both offers a theory of
urban navigation which traces leading plots about the all- surrounding power of
globalization, and which responds to
those narratives by asserting the importance of an alternative monarchy of
knowledge outside of the formal domains of the state. Slumdog Millionaire presents of Jamal Malik from boyhood to
adolescence, from Mumbai's slums, India, and back to works at a call center
seat as a participant on "Who Wants
To Be a Millionaire?", a game show in which he is so successful in
answering the questions that he is suspect of cheating, and is ultimately
arrested. with the same manner in The White Tiger it shows that how Balram is
also cheating his master in quest or thirst of becoming master himself, he
wants to become master himself and wants to have lots of money because
according to him he will get respect in society if he will have power and money
with him. On the one hand, Jamal's journey through Mumbai's underbelly is
marked by come across with abusive teachers,
anti-Muslim demonstrators, child beggar gangs, construction mafias and brutal
police officers, and in The
White Tiger is a socio-political critic of modern India because it
contributing and interpreting the life and culture of the people of rural and
urban India. Here we can say that the two
narratives come together through the primary conceit of flash- back: as Jamal
is interrogated by the constable who arrested him, he remembers experiences in
his past which led him to the correct answers, and in The white tiger we can
see that how Balram is also recollecting his memories that how he spent his
childhood in village and why he came to city to earn some money. In the scene
when Jamal and Salim reunite as adults, for example, a very different vision of
urban reconfiguration appears, and in the white tiger we can see that how
Balram and his cousin came to city just to earn some money and after this they
both want to become a master and don’t want to go back in their village because
they don’t want to leave this urban life or we can say that city life. Here, in
Slumdog Millionaire the two brothers stand in the essential of a half-built
luxury apartment building high above the city but in The White Tiger we can see
that the two cousin brothers they both are in the quest or in need of earning
money and become masters because they want to live their life as a master
itself.
In the back- ground is not the older city, but the new urban. In the
movie Slumdog Millionaire observations of Salim and Jamal moving quickly from a small slum to a nearby
sea of glittering new apartment buildings,then Salim turns to Jamal and says, "That used to be our slum. Can you
believe that? By introducing Salim, backed by Javed, as a paradigmatic
entrepreneur within Mumbai's rise to global status but more importantly
identifies a new kind of subject: the urban navigator, the individual who works
their way through the underbelly of the transforming city, seeking out a unique
path, while activating the opportunities and the limitations this new
environment offers. In The White Tiger also we can see that Balram and his
cousin brother they both also chooses wrong path be become successful in his
life, Balram murdered his master and looted all the money which Mr. Ashok wants
to give as a bribe to the politicians. In his Book the White Tiger Adiga talks about the
discrimination between rich and poor. He also talked about that how rich people
are exploiting the poor’s from centuries and how they are neglected by the
power position, and in Slumdog also we can see that how people who are in power
position exploiting the poor and ruled over them. In movie Slumdog we can also
see that there is a religious discrimination also between Hindu and Muslim
community. The people of Hindu community tried to kill Muslim community people
from there also we can say that these are the darker sides of India.
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