Abstract: Main character Balram Halwai from the novel The White Tiger written by a renowned Indian writer Aravind Adiga commits a severe crime. He murders his own master. This becomes a turning point in his life from being a chauffeur to being a business entrepreneur and tycoon. The way his identity is fashioned as result of his own wishes and expectations and the surrounding controlling mechanisms and forces that manipulate and alter his thought and perception is brimful of convoluted incidents that take place before the murder. The concept of Self-fashioning as speculated and described by Stephen Greenblatt deals with fashioning by an individual and the surrounding factors. The cultural and social forces act upon the mentality of an individual and thus bring about a mutual understanding between the old-self and new-self, and old-authority and new-authority. The process of self-fashioning goes through a tremendous procedure in Balram’s life.
Keywords: Self-fashioning, the Self, the Other, authority, new-Self, new-authority, tran
Title: FASHIONING OF BALRAM HALWAI IN ARAVIND ADIGA’S THE WHITE TIGER
Author: Priya
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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