Psychological Ambivalence in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

Abstract

Ambivalence is the simultaneous existence of contradictory feeling towards an object or person . For Freud the term Ambivalence most frequently involved the opposition between love and hate, which often expressed in obsessional neuroses and melancholy. This sort of co-existing felling towards an object or a person is called ambivalence. In the novel The White Tiger, the protagonist has the feeling ambivalence towards his master Ashok Sharma not only his master and towards society also. Adiga shows his ambivalence through the character Balram Halwai skilfully. This paper vividly deals with the psychological analysis of the character Balram Halwa. Moreover, Psychological ambivalence of Balram Halwai towards his master and Indian society.