A Study Of "The Son Of The Midnight" From The Perspective Of Carnivalization

Carnival Theory is one of the most important theories of M.M.Bakhtin. It is based on the Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel and discourse that how the folk Carnival Culture affect the literary creation and literary expression. Midnight’s Children is one of the representative works of Rushdie. By describing Saleem family’s vicissitude, It shows the historical change of the 20th century Indian. Midnight’s Children questioned the official history and the official language and through describing the variety of voices and shaping multiple images, it express author’s own view of history and the emotion for Indian nation. This thesis mainly use Bakhtin’s Carnival Theory to study Midnight’s Children. It is start with the carnival images in the novel. The carnival images in the novel mainly show in three aspects:the illusion of images, the multiplicity of images and the exaggeration of images; And then I analyzed the carnival narration of the novel:unscramble the unreliable narration of novels from the New Historicism, unscramble novel’s Time-space Body from novel’s narrative time and narrative space; unscramble the crowning-decrowning narrative structure from the ups and downs of characters and irony interpretation of the wars. It finally discussed the novel’s literary form. I mainly analyzes the novel’s multiple-tune and heteroglossia. Through the above, this paper finally shows the author’s thinking about social and political problems of contemporary India. The collision of India’s traditional culture and modern western culture brings what to the India. The leftover problems of colony India and Rushdie’s thinking about women’s status in contemporary Indian.