Satire as a Tool of Exposition in Adiga’s The White Tigre

Abstract

Satire, a form of social criticism, often employs humour, exaggeration, mockery, and criticism to highlight societal flaws. Horatian and Juvenalian are the two most prevalent types of satire, which use literary forms like hyperbole, irony, and other strategies to criticise a leader, social norm, or practice. This study examines the satirical tools and techniques used by Aravind Adiga to intensify socio-politico-racial conflicts and discrimination in postmodern India. Adiga's fictions symbolise the hidden penetrations of poverty, corruption, and class discrimination, magnifying the decay of human morality. Religious, political, cultural, and economic adversities are common phenomena in his thoughts. The White Tiger, for example, reveals Balram Halwai's mockery of contemporary India through epistles addressed to the Chinese Prime Minister. This research aims to uncover racial tensions and class conflicts in the context of Aravind Adiga's postmodern satires by thoroughly reviewing scenarios from his major novels, which include multidimensional phenomena. The research highlights the multifaceted racial tensions and their socio-economic diversities, and the masterful satirical techniques of Adiga's works are discovered with postmodern perspectives.