White Tiger Symbolism

The authors, Ronnberg and Martin, of The Book of Symbols present the colour white with the help of different approaches. They argue, “the milky, maternal ocean of Hindu myth is the source of all the fundamentals of the cosmos” (Ronnberg and Martin 660). Through the fact that the novel is based on Indian society and Indian culture, the white tiger can be referred to Indian cultures’ society and Hinduism belief.

The colour can also represent “the ash or salt of bitter suffering and hard-won wisdom” (Ronnberg and Martin 660). White is said to be untouched and pristine and monotonic (660) but white, with the help of light and shadow, can get many different shades.

As Michael Meyer argues, symbols appear in everyday life, and the colour “white

symbols innocence” (40). When considering clothes, for example, white is a strong symbol for different ceremonial occasions. On the one hand, in some cultures white signifies the bride’s virginity and innocence before their marriage. On the other hand, white can symbolize the grief over a person at funerals in other cultures.
In other cultures white people, so-called albinos that are humans with melanin unsoundness are venerated for their appearance. They are rumoured to be a near-deity, who can cure from diseases. Other cultures, however, despise them, because they are rumoured to be possessed by the devil, for what they were murdered. White can consequently be both, positive and negative.
Equally as the white tiger, white is very seldom. Technically white does not exist at all. In the colour wheel it is the mixture of all colours together that built white. Therefore white is very seldom and this rarity, in animal world/fauna, has a great vogue in today’s society. Through its popularity animals with white fur have a huge amount of enemies that caused the extinction of those rarities. They were not guarded but rather hunted in order that people can primp themselves with their fur and corpses as trophies.