Fusion of Real and Unreal Realms

Magic realism fusion of real and unimportant realms. A comparison of F. Weldons Puffball and J. Wintersons The Passion My most important problem was destroying the lines of crinkle that splits what seems real from what seems fantastic Gabriel Garcia Marquez At the beginning, let me introduce the term fast one realism. As we can read in N. Lindstroms book Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature (University of Texas Press Austin. 1994) Magic Realism is a history technique that blurs the distinction between fantasy and reality.It is characterized by an equal betrothal of the ordinary and the extraordinary. Magic realism fuses (1) lyrical and, at times, fantastic report with (2) an examination of the character of human existence and (3) an implicit criticism of society, especially the elite. I would want to make a comparison of ii glorious novels F. Weldons Puffball and J. Wintersons The Passion based on the definition. First of all, I would uniform to present an int eresting relation between these two titles, that is to say, an appearance of two enemy free radicals of characters in each of the novels a factual and a phantasmagorical type of a personage.Fay Weldon in Puffball portrays this kinship in a surprising mode a factual type is a man, and unrealistic type is a woman. Let me introduce you to Richard and Tucker, the first one is a husband to Liffey, a city oriented, graduate to earth person, working in a big corporation. The second one, who is married to Mabs, in spite of beingness a w ar of his wife strange powers, is a undecomposable farmer. In opposite, we hold back females Liffey, a girl whose process of changing into a wo men (what I compressed here is her being pregnant) is a beginning of her new, closer to Nature tone which enables her to gain new abilities.Next, we permit Mabs, a regular country-side witch, daughter of Nature, who tries to closedown a birth of something new and unexpected a new sorcerers and her cro ss . In the book, these women are a connection between a universe of unknown and fictitious happenings and reality. They are like remainders of Natures true power. By contrast, the men (especially Richard) symbolise lust and earthly plea sures, warning us that forgetting near our past Mother may complicate our lives. Also, in Jeanette Wintersons novel we have this relationship (real versus unreal heroes).Henri, a perfectly pattern, young man, who however later encounters several(predicate) dreamlike situation, follows the Emperor because of his love and respect for him. Domino, who likewise belongs to the first group of characters, is a ordinary stableman, who takes care of Napoleons stable, loves horses and Bonapartes mistress Josephine. On the contrary, we have a dim girl without a heart, Villanell, who comes from a city as mysterious as she is Venice. She tries to return to her homeland of wonders to finally start leaving a real life.Likewise Patrick, an Irish priest, who possesses an extraordinary eye, which enables him to see beyond the horizon and who is banished from his motherland. musical composition being a Napoleons solder he misses his home. Here, we can observe a quest for love. Henri and Domino have something that Villanelle and Patrick do not have a hope, while the last two are left with a parting of reason which shows that sometimes love is not enough. Next I would like to head to issues concerning a choice of places in these novels. In The Puffball we have an opposition of London (city) and Somerset (country side).It is the countryside, where all amazing situations which cannot be explained happen. by chance it is caused by the fact that it is located in a shadow of a mountain which is believed to be mystic Glastonbury Tor. On the contrary, London is a down to earth place, people live their lives and do not think somewhat something different than related to this reality. From the ancient times, countryside was identified with wit chcraft and magic, there were legends rough forests which surrounded villages, about eerie things occurring at nights. People felt nutrition in a countryside was unsafe.Instead, city was like a safe zone, where you magnate have been anonymous however you were never alone. A city was a place where everything was reasonable, explainable, and most of all it was safe you had not to worry about something unrealistic. Russia in The Passion provides us with a harsh reality of war we are witnessing death, cold, fear. We are being led through this country of induce by Henri, Patrick and Villanelle. It is like an escape route to a better, fairy-tale like introduction Venice. In Venice, we can observe a new interesting way of presenting unreality a city within a city.The underworld of Venice, the domain of mysterious, but dangerous people, where nothing is sure and known (even laws of physics), where you cannot be sure if you are going in a right direction. Venice is like a maze, here you can hide yourself and your feelings. Every night the city starts to top it is a city of sin and fun. On the other hand, Russia is a blue and cold place, where is only an empty space of white. At the steppe you cannot deceive yourself, drift or hide because there is merely snow. I would like to ordinate the last section to events of these two novels.In Fey Weldons book Richard leads a normal, affectionateness class life in the city of no hope or glory. He is working at the city, trying to overcome his desires, and eventually to reverse responsibility for what he had done. His relationship with Liffey shows his lack of imagination, his numerous romances and constant unfaithfulness to his pregnant wife makes him miserable man. For instance, his personal business with Bella, Miss Martin and Helga it is ridiculous how these affairs start to rule his life. On the other hand, we have Liffey and her efforts to reborn to Nature.She evermore tries to defy Mabs black-magic, and t hanks to her unborn baby she awakens to the world of Nature and witchcraft. The opposite of incidents from Richards life and unusual happenings which for Liffy becomes a daily bread, shows us how sometimes ignorance omit our eyes to a reality of an another person Richard denies that Liffeys life is as well real and that she did not make up all the extraordinary happenings. In The Passion we are presented to the life of Henris village. It is a daily life of normal farmers, where an only surreal and extraordinary event was an elope of a bird (Henris mother) with a farmer (the father).Whereas Villanelles world is different, it is a world where you can distract someones hart (literally) and lock it up in a jar, where a icicle with a pendant inside does not melt. Here, you have to prepare for unknown. An ordinary, countryside life and an alien Venice life are like a water and fire. Sometimes, we fails to observe that simple is better and that not always we should seek for an excite ment. As we can see, in both novels we have prominent elements of magic realism. The opposition real versus unreal can be made in each of the group of instances mentioned above, which are in sequence characters, places and happenings.Also, I would like to point out that in Puffball a witchcraft is a main theme for the surreal parts, while, in The Passion an urban legend performs this function. A fusion of two world is inevitable, we cannot argue that the unreal elements should not be used and we cannot separate them from the real ones, because these stories would not be as complete and enchanting as they are now. At the end, to recapitulate my thesis, I would like to quote Albert wizard Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.