The White Tiger Essay

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Is there any justification for Balram’s murder of Ashok?
The White Tiger is highly critical of modern India, focusing how people succeed by any means. With his constant references to the events that see Balram’s rise from servant to entrepreneur; Adiga explores the way Balram risking his family’s life in killing Ashok is apparently acceptable in this corrupt and injustice society. Because it is the only way to achieve succeed as well as the way to shake off the family ties and maser-servant relation ship that bind him. However it is mentally unacceptable that he only breaks free of these through his selfish and immoral behavior.
Balram’s killing suggests succeed can base on any dishonest mean that it is the only way to escape poverty. …show more content…

Balram’s action highlight the underlying tensions through the novel that reader should be critical of the way he achieves succeed is by dishonest mean. Despite the blackmail, Balram’s family should not be responsible for his murder since there are innocent and have not thing to do with the killing. Moreover through Balram’s observation Mr. Ashok ‘is capable of becoming something better than his father’ in which Ashok shows some concern for Balram that once he Provide Balram a better living environment. He keeps insisting that Balram is a loyal servant by trusting ‘Balram here touched his eyes as a mark of respect. Ironically, Balram ultimately takes advantage of his master’s naïve belief and betrays him. The unethical ways Balram uses the life of other to achieve his own succeed is more likely to be critical. Throughout Balram’s action Adiga explore the aspect of his ultimate success is his suppression of any feelings of compassion and concern for other. Consequently Balram’s unethical behave to achieve succeed and free does not justify its means.
In conclusion Balram’s decision to murder Ashok and thus sacrifice his family does not fully justify the means, since the way it achieve succeed is immoral and selfish that should be contempt. However despite the dishonesty mean he used, it is the only way to achieve succeed and escape poverty; moreover

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