The White Tiger Essay On Corruption

Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger shares the debauchery, fraud and cancer-like corruption dominating Indian society. With constant references to the corrupt practices existing in schools, hospitals, elections and the entirety of the government; Adiga explores the injustice common amongst all characters. Corruption can be seen through Balram’s twisted and warped morals to progress towards wealth, power and freedom commonly known as the ‘light’. Politicians, police and judges are easily bribed with a high price, from landlords and Balram himself further supporting a corrupt voting system, medical assistance and abuse of teacher salaries. It is the greed of Kusum, illegal business of Thakur Ramdev “Great Stork”, Mr Krishna’s fraud and the powerful
Through Balram, Adiga demonstrates corruption breeds corruption in the underbelly social world of India.
The decision between slavery or freedom, one way or another involves the act or participation in corruption as presented through Balram’s murderess act. Balram describes servants as trapped in a “Rooster Coop”, suggesting India’s poor are like roosters confined in cages aware of their fate but unable or unwilling to escape. The Rooster Coop, a way of oppressing the poor, complicates what is considered just and unjust behaviour for
The ‘Great Socialist’, who represents politicians in India ironically does not provide socialism but instead exploits the poor “put shackles on our hands”. Similarly, judges are easily bribed, “not easy to get evictions when the judges are judging in darkness” and entrust their country to someone with charges including rape, grand larceny and embezzlement. Balram describes the parliamentary democracy of India to be “the whole tragedy of [the] country”, further strengthening the country will remain its usual corrupt democracy from the never-ending bribery. The landlords coherently cooperate with the Great Socialist who demands money from them in exchange for silence against their origins of wealth “taking coal from the government for free”. The Stork, Ashok’s father, was corrupt also, taxing all those who crossed his river and continually “feeding” off the village by stealing money, “pouncing like wild cats on a slab of flesh”. Described by Balram, police are easily bought and sold, clearing charges at the sight of money “this is the way of the jungle we live in”; and remains an unjust system. Balram himself once entering light, registers that the entirety of the government officials, police, judges are murderers of a moral society, are ”totally rotten. Thus, those with the most power to make change, extend social issues and sustain a corrupt India through their