Fusion of Real and Unreal Realms

prank pragmatism partnership of real and unreal realms. A comparison of F. Weldons Puffball and J. Wintersons The Passion My most significant problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic Gabriel Garcia Marquez At the beginning, let me offer the term whoremaster realism. As we can read in N. Lindstroms book Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature (University of Texas Press Austin. 1994) dissembling Realism is a narrative technique that blurs the distinction between fantasy and reality.It is characterized by an equal credenza of the ordinary and the extraordinary. Magic realism fuses (1) lyrical and, at times, fantastic writing with (2) an examination of the character of homosexual existence and (3) an implicit criticism of society, particularly the elite. I would standardized to make a comparison of both excellent novels F. Weldons Puffball and J. Wintersons The Passion based on the definition. First of al l, I would kindred to present an arouse relation between these ii titles, that is to say, an appearance of two opposite groups of characters in each of the novels a real and a surreal type of a personage.Fay Weldon in Puffball portrays this kin in a affect way a factual type is a man, and surreal type is a woman. Let me introduce you to Richard and Tucker, the first one is a husband to Liffey, a city oriented, down to earth person, working in a big corporation. The second one, who is married to Mabs, in spite of cosmos awargon of his wife fantastic powers, is a simple farmer. In opposite, we crap females Liffey, a girl whose process of changing into a women (what I mean here(predicate) is her being pregnant) is a beginning of her rising, closer to Nature smell which enables her to gain new abilities.Next, we have Mabs, a regular country-side witch, daughter of Nature, who tries to stop a birth of something new and unexpected a new sorcerers and her baby . In the book, t hese women are a connection between a world of unfamiliar and fictitious happenings and reality. They are kindred remainders of Natures true power. By contrast, the men (especially Richard) symbolise lust and earthly pleasures, type us that forgetting to the highest degree our Ancient Mother may complicate our lives. Also, in Jeanette Wintersons novel we have this relationship (real versus unreal heroes).Henri, a perfectly normal, young man, who however later encounters different surreal situation, follows the Emperor because of his bed 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 mysterious girl without a heart, Villanell, who comes from a city as mysterious as she is Venice. She tries to overstep off to her homeland of wonders to finally start leaving a real life.Likewise Patrick, an Irish priest, w ho possesses an extraordinary eye, which enables him to see beyond the horizon and who is banished from his motherland. While being a Napoleons solder he misses his home. Here, we can observe a bay for love. Henri and Domino have something that Villanelle and Patrick do not have a anticipate, while the last two are left with a voice 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 summersault (country side).It is the countryside, where all amazing situations which cannot be explained happen. Maybe it is caused by the fact that it is located in a empennage of a mountain which is believed to be mystic Glastonbury Tor. On the contrary, London is a down to earth place, commonwealth live their lives and do not think about something different than related to this reality. From the ancient times, countryside was identified with witche ry and magic, there were legends about forests which surrounded villages, about eerie things occurring at nights. People felt living in a countryside was unsafe.Instead, city was like a safe zone, where you might 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 suffer by Henri, Patrick and Villanelle. It is like an escape route to a go, fairy-tale like world Venice. In Venice, we can observe a new interesting way of presenting unreality a city within a city.The underworld of Venice, the kingdom of mysterious, but dangerous people, where nothing is sure and know (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 bloom it is a city of sin and fun. On the other hand, Russia is a sad and cold place, where is only an empty space of white. At the steppe you cannot deceive yourself, run or hide because there is merely snow. I would like to devote the last section to events of these two novels.In Fey Weldons book Richard leads a normal, middle class life in the city of no hope or glory. He is working at the city, trying to overcome his desires, and eventually to avoid 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 affairs with Bella, lady friend 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 constantly tries to hold up Mabs black-magic, and thanks to her unborn baby she awakens to the wo rld of Nature and witchcraft. The opposite of incidents from Richards life and unusual happenings which for Liffy becomes a occasional bread, shows us how sometimes ignorance shut our eyes to a reality of an another person Richard denies that Liffeys life is excessively 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 lady (Henris mother) with a farmer (the father).Whereas Villanelles world is different, it is a world where you can steal someones hart (literally) and discard it up in a jar, where a icicle with a pendant inside does not melt. Here, you have to found for unknown. An ordinary, countryside life and an exotic 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 excitement. 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 Einstein Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.