Social Violence In The White Tiger

Though she accepts that the novel captures the social violence that permeates the society, she does not want its protagonist to inspire the impoverished millions of the nation. Madhavi Nikam’s paper titled “Face to Face with Reality: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger” (2009) begins from the premise that freedom for the slave comes at a terrible cost as he has to either “lose his life or kill others in frustration” (87). She finds the novel as social commentary and the entrepreneurial success it presents as totally unethical, alluring and unforgettable. In partnership with Sudhir Nikam, she has also produced “Aravind Adiga’s Between the Assassinations: Of Aspiration and Disillusionment” (2015), an article presenting Adiga’s work as a chronicle of the two binaries. Madhurima Srivastava’s research paper titled “The Subaltern can Speak: A Postcolonial Study of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger” (2009) analyses Adiga’s work as a “brutally realistic” postcolonial novel that dwells into the subaltern psyche and takes “serious spunky sideswipes” on contemporary life in India (69).
M. Poonkodi has analysed Adiga’s use of animal images as a narrative device in her research paper titled “The Voice of Servility and Dominance Expressed through Animal Imagery in Adiga’s The White Tiger” (2009). She links the theme and title of the novel with a critical focus on Adiga’s representation of upper class domination and servility of the lower class using beastly images. A. J. Sebastian has