White Teeth Synthesis Essay

While Scholars Head and Dyer focus more on the racial relations between the community of people of color and overalls society, scholar Nick Bentley has chosen to focus on the issues in this novel from a most vast point of view. The critical themes are not just within the microcosm of people of color. He theorizes that England in its entirety is counterproductive to the agenda. Specifically to the novel White Teeth, he criticizes author Zadie Smith for antagonizing the delicacy of the interactions with different cultural groups. Although he does provide compelling arguments that support his claim, it would be advantageous to view the provocation as a critique for improvement. From the viewpoint of a bi-racial woman in London, Smith writes from

Forster’ statement from Aspects of a Novel (1927) “History develops, Art stands still” (382). Zadies Smith does an exceptional job of telling the story of history while creating a complex art piece. Her novels White Teeth and On Beauty contain so many examples of the complex societal constructs that have been created over the years. Even then she is able to give the family dynamic a catastrophic element that distinguishes it from other themes. The common factor that forces everyone outward appears to be the paternal forces; who are very intelligent, and yet completely ignorant of the way their actions affect their family. This lack of attentiveness spreads, and prevents everyone from being comfortable in the house, and furthermore prevents all Belseys and Iqbals from being confident individuals including their wives. There is an ugliness that these men bring to the household that unexpectedly yields something quite the contrary. Smith is highly critical of the male figures within the novels because of their effects on the family’s psyche and relationships with one another. Through juxtaposing the affects of Howard and Samad’s ugly, selfish personalities in the two novels, I have come to the conclusion that Smith consequently illustrates where beauty comes from: beautiful things are the products of unpleasant experiences, and they appear completely accidentally and out of the blue and are birthed of uncertainty. It’s as though Smith is suggesting that true beauty and the roots of ones multiculturalism can never be anticipated, because it resides in what is yet to come and is less about the