Marxian Materialism In Irving Balram

Adiga’s protagonist, Balram, composes in this lengthy humorous letter to the premier of China. He had grown up in this lower caste. Balram longs to move his way up the caste system and become a prosperous and powerful entrepreneur. Nonetheless, throughout his journey to entrepreneurship he mislays his judgment of integrity and capitulates under this corrupt society. Balram regards everything acquisitively and materialistically. This insinuates that he deems everything revolves around money and money means that he is capable of obtaining power. In this corrupt society the people situated in the Darkness do not acquire power. The poor are continuously being maltreated or commanded; the rich have all the power they need to bribe their way out of certain situations.
Yet, this is quite the opposite. Instead of progressing into the Light, he himself is still subsisting in the darkness. Farook Ahmad Sheik, author of Marxian and neo-Marxian Materialistic ideology in Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger, said “In [Adiga’s] opinion, all the local and political systems of the country like the justice, the political bodies and controlling agencies could be controlled by money.” (Farook Ahmad Sheik). What both Shiek and Adiga are attempting to display is that the rich will continuously be triumphing due to their money, but India is not truly progressing onward and the unjust society needs reforming. Subsequently, Balram had acquired wealth he had explained how, “theres no one else in this 150- square foot office of mine, Just me and a chandelier above me…” (5). This presents Balrams materialistic