Failure of Individual Values in Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower

Abstract

This dissertation explores the protagonist’s failure due to the capitalist ideology in Aravind Adiga’s novel Last Man in Tower where the characters are depicted from lower middle class in contrast to the images from upper middle class. Adiga’s Last Man in Tower develops an image of interpellation of the individual that is constructed and associated with capitalist society. Some of his characters are demure and docile and suppressed by capitalist ideology. They are ready to do according to their societal structure because they are in the trap of capitalism. This dissertation highly concentrates on the protagonist’s fight against capitalist ideology to establish his individual values where he is doomed to fail as capitalism does not permit him to move against its pace.