Violence Begets Violence
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
This research looks at Aravind Adiga‟s novel The White Tiger where Adiga focuses on a society where violence reigns freely and his protagonist Balram Halwai struggles to survive in the face of this cruelty. In such a social order, where corruption is at its peak, violence becomes a social norm and those who live under its influence start to accept it as a part of life. They not only observe violent behavior inflicted before them or on them, but they also incorporate it into their own lives. Such a person feels frustrated and this aggravation turns into a need to inflict further pain on others. It is a cry for help as one seeks to look for justification for his own misery but gets caught up in this endless cycle of discontentment and brutality. This article proves the hypothesis that violence indeed does beget further violence as when a person undergoes severe violence of different types; he finally accepts it as a part of his own personality and hence lashes out on the society that made him a victim of social and political corruption.
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Quratul Ain Shafique, Amber Farrukh
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