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.
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According to Adiga, caste system determines a person’s economic and social status and opportunities. Balram’s inherited caste is ‘sweet maker’ which can be define as ‘Men with small belly makes him far away from the opportunity to succeed. As a result the only way to break this irreversible cycle is to take drastic action which in Balram’s case is to murder his master and take his identity as well as the money. Throughout Balram’s observation’ I am in the light now, but I was born and raised in Darkness’, Adiga suggest Balram who from disadvantaged background and designated station can only rise above to ‘light’ by using Ashok’s identity and thus killing them which justify the mean of abandoning any sense of family and master loyalty. On the other hand the money he takes from Ashok is provide an important opportunity for him to become entrepreneur thus lights up his dream and realize his ability that his is not able to achieve all of these within a low caste. Consequently people can only succeed and escapee poverty by dishonest means. Balram’s betrayal can be rationalized while referring to the oppression of the master and blackmailing from his family. Through his narrated ‘the jails of Delhi are full of driver who taking the blame for their masters’, Balram realizes himself would been exploited to do so in which Ashok did not see him as a part of the family. Moreover Balram believes that ‘Indian family is the reason people trapped and tied to the coop’ in which he is been blackmail to send money home and ‘You’ll do what we want’, which shows he is lack of control of himself. Adiga also explore the main way master control their servant and protect themselves from murder is with the threat of violence against the servant’s family. As a result people are trap in the rooster coop that poor people being exploited by the rich and do not resist to been destroyed. However Balram’s determination to ‘not stay as a slave’ and be his own man stimulates him to completely shake off the family ties that bind him. By killing Ashok he knowingly places his family in danger of being killed in revenge. Consequently he is able to rationalize his action that suppresses instinctive feelings of loyalty to his master and responsibility to family’s death. Despite the desires of succeed and free, Balram is irrational that only break free through his selfish and immoral behaviors.
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
it is also an important way to be his own master
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