Compare And Contrast The White Tiger And American Psycho

Compare And Contrast The White Tiger And American Psycho

Unit 2, Comparative Essay

The White Tiger and American Psycho: Power and Madness

Being successful at work can give many advantages such as money, fame, but most importantly, it give power, power to change people's lives and accomplish goals, but power can lead an individual to madness and even force the him/her to do things to keep or gain more power. In both the novel The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and the movie American Psycho by Mary Harron, the reader and viewer can observe the story of a men being obsessed by power and transgressing modern laws to reach their goals. In The White Tiger, the protagonist, Balram, was born in the poor village of Laxmangarh in India. He considers his life miserable. Despite his intelligence, he was forced ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...In The White Tiger, Balram murders Mr. Ashok by slicing his throat, but prior to the murder Balram had convince himself that his employers had too much money and that stealing it would not affect Mr. Ashok, Balram employed many different techniques to steal money from his master, from going to corrupt garages who inflate the price and receiving a cut of the money to using the car as a freelance taxi. The more he stole from Ashok, the more his resentment and feelings of against Mr. Ashok grew, so much that he decides to kill him. After the murder, Balram was feeling guilty of actions and felt sad about it, but the money he obtained from it allowed him to become successful and quickly forgot about it, on the other hand in American Psycho, Bateman kills not less than fifteen people throughout the movie, his first victim was rich coworker, he killed him to get his apartment so he could kill even more without risking being compromised, or to risk being caught in his own apartment, unlike Blaram of The White Tiger, Bateman kills for pleasure, he enjoys it and even accepts the fact that his actions are bad even tough the people surrounding him think of him as a normal person " I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and

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