Portrayal of Environmentally Denatured India in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, which was awarded the ‘Man Booker Prize’ in 2008, is in the epistolary form which presents the burning issues of this developing era. The novel is a form of seven- parts letter written by the protagonist Balram of the novel to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. In this kind of style the protagonist not only explains his struggle story, from his dark native place Laxmangarh to shining city Delhi and then bright metropolitan city Bangalore, but also presents the condition of our environment which is in the margin for the sake of development. Adiga in the novel not only concentrates on population growth which is one of the biggest causes of environment degradation but also highlights other issues like water pollution, air pollution and other prevailing issues that affect human life as well as the ambient atmosphere as an alarm. The present paper is an effort to explore the environmental issues in the novel through Eco- Criticism. This emerging theory reveals the relationship between literature and physical environment. The paper also explores the consequences of environmental degradation in human life and its long lasting evil impacts on our unique planet. Keywords: Eco- Criticism, Environment, Environmental degradation, Pollution, Population
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Dr. Dhanesh Mohan Bartwal
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