1. Midnight’s Children : Narrative Techniques
Nanditaba Chudasama
Semester : 3
Enrollment no : 3069206420200006
Roll no : 12
Batch : 2020- 2022
S.B Gardi Department of English Bhavnagar University
2. Apocalyptic Narrative
• What is Apocalyptic Narrative?
• Apocalyptic Narrative is one of
the aspects in the narrative
techniques as found in Salman
Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.
• Apocalyptic Narrative and idea of
Nationalism.
• “Abracadabra” Possess lots of
apocalyptic connotations.
3. Point of view as found in Salman
Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
•Moving in course of time,place
and action.
•First person narrative.
•Claims omniscient narrative.
•Frank kermode : concordance.
•Coherence with moments in the
past and future.
4. Cinematic Technique
• Beginning of the novel
• Reflection of post colonial
culture of India
• Language of Saleem’s
narrative
• Melodramatic
• Switching of Saleem snd
Shiva by Mary Pereira
5. Magic Realism is :
• The blend of reality and fantacy so that the
distinction between the two is erased.
• Transformation of the common and every day into
the awesome and unreal
• Elements of dreams,fairy tales,or mythology
combined with everyday.
• The frame or surface of the work may be
conventionally realistic.
• Have a strong narrative drive.
6. Language
• “Language” in a narrative form.
• Structure of a language.
• Indian contextual words.
• Interesting words like God knows
what, what its name.
• Use of allusions
• English language with in
“appropriation.”
7. Time Lapses as found in midnight’s
Children
• Switching from present to past and from past to future.
• Including flashbacks, mixture of tenses and others.
• Disturb the flow of the narrator and saleem the
character.
• Example : Thirty two years before as present.(ch-1)
• Grandfather Adam Aziz’s existence lies along with his
contemporaries, from present to past.(ch-2)
• Narrator makes us move by taking us in course of
time,place and action.
8. Citations
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children.
New York :Modern Library, 2003.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's
Children. Toronto: Vintage
Canada, 1997. Print.
