Abstract

VIEWS OF OMAR KHAYYAM, THE NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL SHAME TAKES HIS NAME FROM THE GREAT PERSIAN POET OF THE SAME NAME

KULDEEP SINGH MALIK

Volume: 2 Issue: 3 2012

Abstract:

The life of Saleem in Midnight's Children or to a little extent Omar in Shame can be compared to the wretched fate of Kama of the epic Mahabharata. Kama throughout lives an ordinary life unaware of his noble blood, Saleem's humble origins are changed for the luxury life of Shiva's whereas Omar carries on his life in the same house because his house itself bears multiple mothers and an unknown wife of an Englishman. Characterization in Rushdie is unique and mystic. Whereas some of his characters are identifiable with political figures, others he claims to be inspired by not a single but several noticeable human traits or several traits noticeable in a human being. They often come out of several gestures or from small details of the character from which the rest of the character grows. Therefore personalities of characters in Rushdie are rather a mixture of more than one person. Like, a little American girl Evie Burns is a mixture and an exaggeration of the worst of features of some tomboyish girls in Rushdie's neighbor hood

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