Abstract
<em>The aim of this paper is to examine a comparative study between Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children in the light of Magic Realism. It aims to examine Shakespeare’s and Rushdie’s treatment of Magic Realism during 16th century England and 20th century India, respectively. For this propose, it attempts to portray some important characters, like Prospero, Caliban, and Ariel in the play, The Tempest and the narrator, Saleem Sinai in the novel, Midnight Children. It aims to look at applying the theory of Magic Realism made by prominent critics and scholars. It also wants to focus on magic, supernatural, occult, imagination, reality, and mystery. Both Shakespeare’s and Rushdie’s literary texts are analyzed within the parameters of these issues. Finally, this paper presents the art of characterization, themes and situations, writing forms, similarities and differences in various phases of the two famous writers.</em>
Highlights
Starting from the fundamental concept of magic realism as a narrative style, which seeks to realize the supernatural elements, this submission draws a comparative investigation between William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children in the light of magic realism
As far as the two texts written in the form of magic realism on a comparative level are very few in number, this potential research aims to overlap those gaps by making a comparative analysis between The Tempest and Midnight’s Children
The aim of this article is to highlight the elements of magic realism in both texts and how both Shakespeare and Rushdie are from different countries and varied history, struggled with untangling reality by trying to get behind the inexplicable in things, in life, in human acts in creating a mysterious relationship between man and his situations to be more realistic than a realist text
Summary
Studies in Linguistics and Literature ISSN 2573-6434 (Print) ISSN 2573-6426 (Online). Md. Amir Hossain1* 1 Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh * Md. Amir Hossain, M. Researcher, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
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