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- Title
DECONSTRUCTING THE CLASS BARRIERS IN IAS TODAY AND THE WHITE TIGER.
- Authors
Chaurasiya, Deepti
- Abstract
Class difference creates nightmare for the underprivileged groups in all the societies of the world. Almost half of the population remains at the back foot accepting their limited resources and remain cluttered in their own narrow world. Vikas Sharma's recent publication IAS Today (2021) and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger (2008) is an eye view of the struggle and courage required for the journey of impoverished to create an empowered self. The hero of Vikas Sharma's novel leads a quite linear and disciplined life keeping all the distractions aside and proves his worth by becoming an IAS officer. Even after acquiring the name and status, he follows Gandhian lifestyle to conduct his survey to the social issues and their eradication. On the other side, the protagonist in The White Tiger, lives a suppressed life under the courtesy of his master. At the end, he deconstructs the age old hierarchy of the rich and poor and becomes an entrepreneur but at what cost. He violates the human values turns into a ruthless ungrateful criminal and kills his master. Both the novels present a contrast in the modern world between greed and lust, rich and poor, values and ethics. The present paper shall comprehend the social structure in a more unified way tracing the growth of an individual from a defeated being to a winner and it will also discuss whether the means matters in the process of achieving the target or the end justifies the means.
- Subjects
CLASS differences; WHITE tiger (Bengals); SHARMA, Vikas; LIFE; SOCIAL problems
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Article