SYMBOL OF DARKNESS IN ARVINDA ADIGA’S THE WHITE TIGER

Abstract

In the novel, The White Tiger, the novelist, Arvinda Adiga uses the symbol ‘darkness’. Through the image darkness he unfolds the world before us which is visualised more prominently in a contrast world of light. The village life is symbolised as darkness where the narrator grows up. The darkness world is a complete world and people never feel awkward unless and until they experience the world of light, i.e., the amenities of the modern urban world. V.S Naipaul also writes a non-fiction book entitled as, ‘India: An Area of Darkness’.