1. CRITIQUE ON WHITE TIGERPrepared by:-ThakarAneri R
Roll no:- 01
Paper no:-13 New Literature
Guided by Dr. Dilip Barad

2. Introduction
 TheWhiteTiger is
the debut novel by Indian
authorAravind Adiga. It
was first published in 2008
and won the 40th Man
Booker Prize in the same
year.[1] The novel provides
a darkly humorous
perspective of India’s class
struggle in a globalized
world as told through a
retrospective narration
from Balram Halwai, a
village boy.

3. First night
 Introduction of Balram By himself
 Concept of “Half baked human”
 River as symbol of “Darkness”
 Corruption in the Indian Education System
 Balram as white tiger
 Theme of identity

4. Second night
 Worker as a “human Spiders”
 "Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look
at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better
to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and
under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in
crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or
forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do
your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the
way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.“
 Caste system
 “In the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies
in India.These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big
Bellies, and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies:
eat—or get eaten up.”

5. The fourth morning
 Democracy in India
 Satire on Politician
 . People disagree about whether the politician began
with good intentions and then became corrupt, or if
he was “dirty from the start” (81). Regardless, it had
become impossible to vote him out of power, even
as his hold over the Darkness was weakening due to
93 pending criminal cases against him and his
ministers, for charges ranging from murder to rape
and gun-runsning. Despite the corrupt justice
system, several convictions had already been
handed down.

6. The fourth night
 The symbol of Chandelier.
 The symbol of the chandelier remains a great symbol for
Balram's complicated relationship with wealth, and the
extremes that obsession drive him to. In the discussion
that opens this chapter, it becomes clear that Balram’s
fixation upon chandeliers is linked to his belief that he is
unique and exceptional among his peers
 Moral v/s self improvement.

7. The fifth night
 Rooster coop
 "We are made mysteries to ourselves by the
Rooster Coop we are locked in”
 Cage of Zoo as symbolic meaning.

8. The sixth Morning
 The idea of “ Men with big bellies” and “Men
with small bellies”

9. The sixth night
 Light and darkness within himself
 “You were looking for the key for years/but
the door was always open”

10. The seventh night
 Balram’s transformation

11. Thank you
 Submitted to :- Department of English
M.K.B University of Bhavnagar