1) How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The White Tiger?
The India which is represented by Adiga is poor, corrupt, uneducated, and cheater also. Well I do agree that not only India but all countries in the world do have these bad kinds of problem in it. But it doesn’t make them all bad. Adiga has represented the darker side of India. This novel was written in 2008, after that India has progressed in many ways. But then even we can bot fully deny that poverty, corruption, and illiteracy are vanished from India. Still in some remote place there are landlords who ruled over town people. Still there are many people who are not educated properly. So, we can not deny the India which is represented in “The White Tiger” by Adiga, but we can say that, India is not only what is represented by Adiga. There is bright side of India. By bright side I mean There are people who are educated, rich enough and honest.
2) "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?
Yes, it is possible to deconstruct “The White Tiger”. We can deconstruct it with the help of Derrida’s concept of free play of meanings. To break the language we need to find the loose stone of it. The loose stone of “The White Tiger” is that Balram himself says that he is “Half-backed”. This word breaks all the philosophy and all the ideals which Balram is presenting by giving his own example. Because he is not fully educated. He understand things with his limited power of analysis. He appropriate the deep philosophies with his shallow ideas and thinking. For example, he compares his idea of killing his master and get freedom with the enlightenment of Buddha. This proves his shallow knowledge about Buddha and his idea of enlightenment. So, this way we can deconstruct “The White Tiger”.
The India which is represented by Adiga is poor, corrupt, uneducated, and cheater also. Well I do agree that not only India but all countries in the world do have these bad kinds of problem in it. But it doesn’t make them all bad. Adiga has represented the darker side of India. This novel was written in 2008, after that India has progressed in many ways. But then even we can bot fully deny that poverty, corruption, and illiteracy are vanished from India. Still in some remote place there are landlords who ruled over town people. Still there are many people who are not educated properly. So, we can not deny the India which is represented in “The White Tiger” by Adiga, but we can say that, India is not only what is represented by Adiga. There is bright side of India. By bright side I mean There are people who are educated, rich enough and honest.
2) "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?
Yes, it is possible to deconstruct “The White Tiger”. We can deconstruct it with the help of Derrida’s concept of free play of meanings. To break the language we need to find the loose stone of it. The loose stone of “The White Tiger” is that Balram himself says that he is “Half-backed”. This word breaks all the philosophy and all the ideals which Balram is presenting by giving his own example. Because he is not fully educated. He understand things with his limited power of analysis. He appropriate the deep philosophies with his shallow ideas and thinking. For example, he compares his idea of killing his master and get freedom with the enlightenment of Buddha. This proves his shallow knowledge about Buddha and his idea of enlightenment. So, this way we can deconstruct “The White Tiger”.
3) How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel "The White Tiger".
The India is presented by Adiga is a reality about the nation. People are living in slums still today and someday they can not get food for one time a day. The life of villages people ,family and their belief ,all this things presented by Adiga as it is. He mentions the corruption system of school and harassment of landlords which is not fake but reality. Poor are become more poor and rich are become more rich. Writers like Chetan Bhagat , Arvind Adiga,they present the situation of India as it is.
4)Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?
Balram' s story is a story of rags to riches like the character of Jamal in Slumdog millionaire. Balram had spend poor life in his childhood and leave his education also. He become a car driver of an entrepreneur and then he find his way for becoming rich. He decided to kill his owner Ashok and ran with money which Ashok have with him. After to kill him he leave the village and become an entrepreneur with the changing identity.
The India is presented by Adiga is a reality about the nation. People are living in slums still today and someday they can not get food for one time a day. The life of villages people ,family and their belief ,all this things presented by Adiga as it is. He mentions the corruption system of school and harassment of landlords which is not fake but reality. Poor are become more poor and rich are become more rich. Writers like Chetan Bhagat , Arvind Adiga,they present the situation of India as it is.
4)Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?
Balram' s story is a story of rags to riches like the character of Jamal in Slumdog millionaire. Balram had spend poor life in his childhood and leave his education also. He become a car driver of an entrepreneur and then he find his way for becoming rich. He decided to kill his owner Ashok and ran with money which Ashok have with him. After to kill him he leave the village and become an entrepreneur with the changing identity.
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