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The White Tiger Symbolism

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In literary excellence of delineating the things Aravind Adiga and A K Ramanujan share a great deal as both the writers have unchecked obsession with animals and the animal world. The animals of different types and shapes, dreadful as well as friendly species, in the novel of the former and poems of the latter are set to cause the sense of disgust, gloom, death, certain analogies, vitality and even celebration. Snakes, disgusting and nauseating fish at dinner plate, red bony chicken like human flesh, young pigs in slum, tamed mysterious buffaloes, white tiger, big lizards, alligators, insects such as wasps and other amphibians--crawl, move and figure in the literary world of both the writers. The concept of animal omnipresence in the vast scheme of their literary craftsmanship has been artistically and symbolically deployed as the connecting force within the structure of the poetry and the narrative. As literary tools these recurrent animal images, their references and allusions serve the purpose of rendering seam and common thread to the texture of The White Tiger; while in case of Ramanujan they constitute the archetypal and mythical poetic base for the proper …show more content…

This is a brilliantly crafted novel in the form of six letters which the protagonist, Balram Halwai, the mouthpieces of Aravind Adiga and the narrator, writes to the Chinese Premier laying bare the realistic account of the dark land called India. Applying his artistic insight Adiga discerns certain segregationist dualities which characterize present day India. He projects rather two worlds viz. darker India--- the hinterland, away from the coastal enlightenment, and the light India having the vastness of sea; two classes of human animals living in this jungle viz. bellied, the ruling class and the non-bellied, the ruled ones, the poor working

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