The document discusses various metaphors used by Arvind Adiga in his novel "The White Tiger". It analyzes metaphors like the River Ganga, Hanuman, Buddha, Gandhi, entrepreneurship, animals, and the white tiger. It explains how each metaphor is used to critique issues like servitude, corruption, and the realities of poverty in India. In conclusion, it states that Adiga uses metaphors to add deeper meanings and subtle critiques to the novel's portrayal of social deprivation and inequality.

2. Topic – Various metaphors used and subverted by
Adiga in ‘ The White Tiger’.
 Name : Binkalba Gohil
 Semester : 4
 Roll no : 5
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 Email id : Binkalbagohil1995gmail.com
 Year : 2018
 Submitted to : Department of English Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

3.  Arvind Adiga’s debut novel, The
White Tiger, is a commentary on the
contemporary and almost universal
theme of poverty and frustration of
modern man.
 Marginalized people are usually
discriminated, ignored and often
suppressed on the basis of race,
caste, gender, culture, religion,
ethnicity, occupation, education and
economy by the mainstream.

4. Conti..
 The same happened to Balram, the
son of Vikram Halwai, a rickshaw
puller, who was born in Laxmangarh,
in the district of Gaya.
 Through the novel, the author
presents the subaltern voice through
the voice of Balram Halwai, a self-
styled successful entrepreneur.
 The novel depicts the story about a
compelling, angry and darkly
humorous.

5. Why metaphor uses in literature?
 Metaphor is used in literature to
provide insights into how things really
are and guide our thinking about their
topic. The function of a metaphor in
literature is two-fold.
 The first, and more practical, function
is to allow the reader greater
understanding of the concept, object,
or character being described, which is
done by comparing it to an item that
may be more familiar to the reader.
 The second function is to produce the
desired result by the writer by creating
an image that is beautiful or profound.

6. How many metaphors uses by
Adiga in the white tiger?
 River Ganga
 Hanumaman
 Buddha
 Gandhi
 Entrepreneurship
 Animals
 Stock
 Mongoose
 Wildbour
 Raven
 Buffalo
 Black fort
 The rooster coop
 The white tiger

7. Let’s see Metaphors in detail .
Entrepreneurs
hip
River Ganga
HanumamanBuddha
Gandhi

8. Metaphors

9. River Ganga
 Adiga also speak very satirical
way to river ganga . How Ganga
river burning of body Everybody
consider very good but represent.
 He refer ganga is crimasance
centre totally opposite view point
do not have reverence for mother
Ganga completely irreverent .
 he doesn't show traditional
respect of any Hindu is supposed
to show towards river Ganga
Yamuna or similar kinds of things
.

10.  Hanuman .
 “Image of saffron colour creature half man
half monkey, this is Hanuman everyone
favourite god in the darkness. do you know
about Hanuman sir, he was faithful servant
of God Ram and we worship him in our
Temple, because he is shining example
how to solve your master with absolute
futility love and divorce.”
 So in this example Adiga says I don't want
to be Hanuman but I will be master and I
will be Hanuman surround me. so this is his
way of arguing that kind of logic through he
critically look image of Hanuman .
 His ideas to come out from servitude. That
way it's reflect.

11. Entrepreneur
 Novel also criticize entrepreneur so he is
same until corrupt Businessman.
Entrepreneur should not be sentimental he
doesn't afford them to be sold.
 Here in the novel Balram's story is the
archetype of all stories of 'rags to
riches' white tiger there is a
Balram richness is not progress but it
'regress because he is morally corrupt man
being.
 he do not any kind of morality .Person goes
there because of they wanted to money .
Balram How to reach where he is so that
confessional mode telling the process
because they done several wrong things.

12. Gandhi
 Here novel also
portrayed
Gandhi's ideas
about Putting
weapons down,
putting pens
down, putting
equipments
down ,that is
his way of
doing things .

13. Buddha
 “This is famous district world famous your
Nations history has been Boddhgaya the
town where the Lord Buddha set under a
tree and found his enlightenment and started
Buddhism.”
 “which then spread to the whole world
including China and where is it but right here
in my home district just a few miles from
laxmangrah.”
 I wonder if the Buddha walk through
laxmangrah some people say he did my own
feeling is that he is on through it as fast as
he could and got to the other side and never
look back.

14. Rooster coop
 White Tiger Rooster Coop Represents
the chaos that is India. Shows this as
a world where only the strong and
powerful will survive. The rooster coop
shows the corruption and slave .
 India has invented anything it is
rooster coop rather than merely the
invention.
 India has done this rooster coop,
people will be killed then we say that I
was save it he died. Why should I
worry about? So Rooster Coop is this
when people are dying we
don't question.
 So India has invented Rooster coop
that is what a Adiga bigger satire on
India.
 It started from family.

15. Conclusion
 Adiga has therefore tried to present his characters with
the use of metaphors.
 These metaphors embellish, but they add more meaning
subtlety and insidiously.
 They are often scathing, adding gore to this tale of
deprivation and poverty.
 This technique is by no means new or unique: “Indians,
in particular are accustomed to the art of employing
imagery in their conversational deliverance or
philosophical deliberations: “Talking metaphorically or
obliquely by implication is generally natural with
Indians’”

16. Works Cited
 Tiger, Use of Imagery and Metaphor in Aravind Adiga's
the White and Kasbekar, Sushama Sushama. Use of
Imagery and Metaphor in Aravind Adiga's the White
Tiger. 5 3 2016. 18 3 2018
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tiger>.
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