Thinking Activity: The White Tiger

 

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

 

Ans:- The representation of India is advanced it is also poor, corrupt, acting, and cheating. Surprisingly, I agree, not only India, but all the countries in the world have this kind of bad problem. But that doesn’t make it all bad. Adiga is clinging to the ghats of India. The novel was short-lived in the years 2008, then progressing strongly. But even after that, the fulfillment of that talk is the destruction of poverty, corruption, and corruption in India. Landlords who live far away from some places rule over the people of the city. Many people are also not properly educated. So, not allowed by India, but introduced by Adiga, introduced by “White Tiger”, but that’s not what we’re talking about.

 

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

 

Ans:- We can see that at the end of the stories depicting the poor as the central character make the poor rich. We can see a lot of people who are like Balaram. Belonging to a poor and extended family, who has not completed their studies, who goes to work from an early age and who has insulted the rich. Such stories depict the struggle of the poor to achieve their dream and to become rich. Ways to reach the goal of wealth may be different in each story but suffering is always the same. So, in this way, we can say that Balram's story is the wonder of all the stories of 'Ragathi Reaches'.

 

(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 'free play' (Derrida, 1978, in Lodge, 1988, p. 108). Is it possible to do deconstructive reading of The White Tiger? How?

 

Ans:-  Yes, it is possible to deconstruct "White Tiger". We can deconstruct it with the help of Derrida's notion of the meaning of the free play. To break the language we need to find its loose stone. The yellow stone of "The White Tiger" is that Balram himself says that he is "semi-supported". This word breaks the philosophy and all the ideals that Balram gives by giving his own example. Because he is not fully educated. He understands things with the limited power of analysis. He allocates deep shallow philosophies to his shallow thoughts and thinking. For example, he compares the idea of ​​killing his master to gaining freedom with the knowledge of the Buddha.