Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: A Socio –Political Study of Poverty and Injustice

IJOHMN ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
RASHMI Ahlawat
Keyword(s):  
Indian Society ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
White Tiger

Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize winning debut novel The White Tiger is sharp, fascinating, attacks poverty and injustice. The White Tiger is a ground breaking Indian novel. Aravind Adiga speaks of suppression and exploitation of various sections of Indian society. Mainly a story of Balram, a young boy’s journey from  rags to riches, Darkness to Light transforming from a village teashop boy into a Bangalore entrepreneur. This paper deals with poverty and injustice. The paper analyses Balram’s capability to overcome the adversities and cruel realities. The pathetic condition of poor people try to make both ends meet. The novel mirrors the lives of  poor in a realistic mode. The White Tiger is a story about a man’s journey for freedom. The protagonist   Balram in this novel is a victim of injustice, inequality and poverty. He worked hard inspite   of his low caste and overcame the social hindrance and become a successful entrepreneur. Through this novel Adiga portrays realistic and painful image of modern India. The novel exposes the anxieties of the oppressed.

scholarly journals Pandangan Dunia Pengarang Terhadap Kehidupan Sosial Masyarakat Dayak Benuaq dalam Novel Api Awan Asap Karya Korrie Layun Rampan

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Tefan Randika Putra ◽  
Suseno W S ◽  
Maharani Intan Andalas IRP
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Forest Sustainability ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich

Karya sastra merupakan sebuah struktur, namun bukan sesuatu yang statis. Karya sastra adalah cermin dari masyarakat yang mewakilinya. Oleh karena itu, lewat sebuah karya sastra pengarang bisa mengekspresikan gagasannya. Untuk mengetahui pandangan dunia pengarang terhadap kehidupan sosial masyarakat Dayak Benuaq, penelitian ini menggunakan kajian teori strukturalisme genetik Lucien Goldmann. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan pandangan dunia pengarang terhadap kehidupan masyarakat Dayak Benuaq yang  tercermin dalam Api Awan Asap. Hasil dari penelitian ini disimpulkan bahwa struktur karya sastra dalam novel Api Awan Asap meliputi tokoh, alur, latar, sudut pandang, dan tema yang menggambarkan pandangan dunia Korrie. Kemudian pandangan dunia pengarang dijelaskan melalui latar belakang sosial pengarang, pandangan terhadap kehidupan sosial, dan dialektika. Korrie mengekspresikan bentuk gagasannya bahwa Masyarakat Dayak Benuaq bukan oknum yang merusak hutan. Masyarakat Dayak sangat menjaga hutan dengan sistem masyarakat Dayak Benuaq yang diwariskan oleh nenek moyang. Sistem sosial masyarakat dijelaskan melalui kepercayaan masyarakat, interaksi sosial kemasyarakatan, ekonomi masyarakat, kesenian masyarakat, serta sistem pemeliharaan dan hukum masyarakat Dayak Benuaq. Kemudian pengarang sebagai subjek kolektif menggambarkan perbedaan kelas sosial antara kaum borjuis dengan kaum biasa. Dari penelitian skripsi ini dapat dilihat bahwa masyarakat Dayak memiliki konsep hidup untuk melestarikan alam dan sangat menghargai alam raya. Literature is a structure, but not something static. Literature is a reflection of society that represent it. Therefore, through a literary author can express his ideas. To know the author’s view towards the Dayak Benuaq’s social life, this research uses genetic structuralism theory proposed by Lucien Goldmann. The purpose of this study is to describe the author’s view towards the Dayak Benuaq’s social life that is reflected on a novel entitled Api Awan Asap. The finding of this study concludes that the literary stucture on the novel entitled Api Awan Asap includes character, plot, setting, point of view, and theme which describe the Korrie’s life. Then, the author’s life view is explained through the author’s social background, social life view, and dialectal. Korrie expreesses his ideas that Dayak Benuaq Society is not the doer who destroy the forest. Dayak Benuaq Society maintains the forest sustainability uses their own system that is innherited by their ancestors. Social Society system is exeplained through the society belief, social interaction, scoiety economy, society art, and as well as the maintenance and low system of Dayak Benuaq Society. Then, the author as the collective subject describes the social classes differentiation between the rich and poor people. Build on this study, it can be seen that Dayak Benuaq Society has a living concept to preserve the nature and appreciate the natural kingdom.

scholarly journals Corruption as Responsible Factor for Poverty in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Md. Abullais
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Rural India ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The People ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
White Tiger ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Public Money

Adiga has written the novel The White Tiger in the phase of his career when India was facing problems of corruption, moral depravity deceit. In the realistic portrayal of Indian society. He has canvassed to us a class of people where are social status are being determined by economic status.  In his debut novel. The White Tiger, Adiga exposes the real but ugly face of India’s heart of darkness, mainly the rural India, Indian political system and government machinery.  Politicians and bureaucrats misappropriate public money. Politicians and bourgeoisie follow the colonialist tendencies of exploitative methods. Adiga points out the problems of corruption facing by the people in India. The White Tiger expresses the power of the rich and their domination to the poor.

scholarly journals Analyzing Indian Socio-Political Thoughts, Hunger and Freedom in Bhabhani Bhattacharya’s Novel “So Many Hungers”

IJOHMN ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Hassan Bin Zubair ◽  
Dr. Saba Sadia
Keyword(s):  
Indian Society ◽  
Rural India ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Political Transitions ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Culture Tradition

This paper focuses on the Indian cultural background having the themes like hunger, poverty, famine, war, politics, freedom, imperialism, economic exploitation, class consciousness in the Indo-Anglian English fiction writer Bhabani Bhattacharya’s novel So Many Hungers!, related to the socio-political and economic situations of Bengali’s society. The theme of the novel is mainly the existing pressing problems of India especially the rural India before and after the Independence. Realism is one of the most remarkable features of Bhabani Bhattacharya’s fiction. His novel shows a passionate awareness of life in India, the social awakening and protest, the utter poverty of peasants, the Indian freedom struggle and its various dimensions, the tragedy of partition of the country, the social and political transitions, the mental as well as the physical agony of the poor peasants and labor class people of the Indian society, especially that of Bengal and other adjoining states. Bhattacharya believes that an artist should inevitably be concerned with truth and reality, his portrayal of the life and society is never a photographic one nor a journalistic record. One can very well find the reflection of Indian culture, tradition and struggle in it.

scholarly journals Women Oppression as a Result of Male Dominated Culture as Represented in Shenoy’s Novel ‘The Secret Wish List’

2021 ◽  
Vol 317 ◽  
pp. 03005
Author(s):  
Ratna Dwi Astuti ◽  
Nurdien Harry Kistanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Male Domination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Male Dominated

Oppression is the name of social injustice. It is perpetuated through social institutions, practices, and norms on the social group by social group. Indian society belongs to the man since a long time ago Indian woman has been given a secondary and inferior position in family and society. She has faced injustice, suppression, oppression, subjugation, and exploitation in a male-dominated Indian society. It has been worst because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This study describes how male domination and woman’s oppression is experienced by an Indian woman and its explanation to what extent women reject male domination represented in The Secret Wish List novel by Preeti Shenoy. The method used in this study is a descriptive qualitative study and uses Derrida’s theory of deconstruction to support the data. The main theory used in this study is Simone de Beauvoir’s theory of Existentialist Feminism. This study shows that the novel deconstructs its portrayal of male domination towards women. So, by destabilizing the binary opposition in the novel, that are males oppose females, the males-females hierarchy are reversed.

scholarly journals CONCERNING CULTURAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENT; THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUAL AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN GRISHAM’S THE STREET LAWYER

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nasrullah Nasrullah
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Condition ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Interesting Aspect ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
The Social

This paper is about the role of intellectuals and America’s civil society movement in the struggle of poor people and the homeless in Washington, USA, to claim their rights in Grisham’s The Street Lawyer. Both of these are called cultural and political movement. The author analyzes the discrepancy in USA in Reagan’s era. The interesting aspect of the novel is the role of legal clinic for homeless and the intellectual from NGO and social organization constructed in the novel. This paper uses genetic structuralism in analysis. Aspect of intrinsic and extrinsic of the work is the object of material of the analysis. Otherwise, the theories about intellectual and civil society movement by Antonio Gramsci are the extrinsic tools to describe how the social condition in that era is. The results of the analysis indicates the discrepancy in America, especially in Washington DC. The street lawyer and the intellectuals of some social organizations have the significant roles as the part of America’s social movement in creating equality and social welfare for all. Those case are founded in the analysis of the novel.

scholarly journals Theme of Love and Suffering of Women in Rabindranath Tagore’s Novel ‘A Grain of Sand’ (Chokher Bali, 1903)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
Ritu Tandon
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Female Education ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychological Point

The novel, ‘A Grain of Sand’ (Chokher Bali,1903), is about the social problems of early marriages, widowhood, and extra-marital affair of a married man with a young widow. In this novel, Rabindranath Tagore has portrayed the problems of women in Indian society like widow-remarriage, child-marriage, dowry and illicit extra-marital relationship along with the predicaments of widows in Bengal at the end of the nineteenth century. The difficulties and complications of human relationships and the significance of love in the human relationships are portrayed in this novel.  He has encouraged the need of female education and the abolition of social evils like child-marriage, dowry, widowhood and illiteracy of women, domestic hostility and submissiveness of women are presented in his wonderful novels and stories. In the centre of these social obstacles, female education is revealed as a greater need in the Tagore’s novels. He has portrayed the solitude, sufferings, disappointments and unfulfilled suppressed desires of sexuality of a Bengali widow Binodini in this novel ‘A Grain of Sand’. Rabindranath Tagore had seen social realities from a psychological point of view and performed the role of a social reformer or a moralist. He has presented the problems of women by examining what is happening in the society. In this novel Tagore has shown an amazing notice of the predicaments of women of the Hindu society.  In this study an investigation has been made to show how Rabindranath Tagore has depicted the theme of love and suffering of women in this novel ‘A Grain of Sand’.  

Analytical Study of Violence Theme in Victoria Schwab’s This Savage Song

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Aggressive Approach ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Right

This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.

Dmenisions of Human Behavior in The Novel “The Foreigner” By Arun Joshi

IJOHMN ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Abhishek Verma
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
As If ◽  
Available Resources

In the modern age of globalization and modernization, people have become selfish and self-centered.  Feeling of sympathy and kindness towards poor people have almost bolted from the hearts of those who have richly available resources.  They leave needy people running behind their luxurious chauffer-driven cars.  Poor and marginalized people keep shouting for help for their dear ones but upper class people trying to show as if they did not hear any long distant sound crept into their eardrums.  This trauma, agony, pain and sufferings is explored in the novel, The Foreigner.

KONSEP DIRI “ I “ DAN “ME” TOKOH HIROKO DALAM NOVEL NAMAKU HIROKO KARYA NH.DINI

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Besin Gaspar
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Social Customs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

This research deals with the development of  self concept of Hiroko as the main character in Namaku Hiroko by Nh. Dini and tries to identify how Hiroko is portrayed in the story, how she interacts with other characters and whether she is portrayed as a character dominated by ”I” element or  ”Me”  element seen  from sociological and cultural point of view. As a qualitative research in nature, the source of data in this research is the novel Namaku Hiroko (1967) and the data ara analyzed and presented deductively. The result of this analysis shows that in the novel, Hiroko as a fictional character is  portrayed as a girl whose personality  develops and changes drastically from ”Me”  to ”I”. When she was still in the village  l iving with her parents, she was portrayed as a obedient girl who was loyal to the parents, polite and acted in accordance with the social customs. In short, her personality was dominated by ”Me”  self concept. On the other hand, when she moved to the city (Kyoto), she was portrayed as a wild girl  no longer controlled by the social customs. She was  firm and determined totake decisions of  her won  for her future without considering what other people would say about her. She did not want to be treated as object. To put it in another way, her personality is more dominated by the ”I” self concept.

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