The Oneness Of Brahma And Atman

Salman Rushdie is Anglo-Indian Writer. His masterpiece Midnight's Children won Booker Prize in 1981, and then "Booker's booker" respectively in 1993 and 2008. This novel exhibits the superb narrative technique and profound culture background of the writer.This paper is composed of three parts, namely, the introduction, the text and the conclusion. The introduction puts forward the subject of the paper, analyzes status quo of the researches at home and abroad on this novel, and explains the significance of the subject and structure of the paper. The text includes three parts. Part one focalizes on the mythical narrative of the novel. This part firstly explains briefly the relationship between the Indian myth, religion, and philosophy, and then analyzes the mythical archetype of the characters in the novel, thus bridges between the narrative pattern and the religious meaning. Part two concentrates on the narrative space of the novel. The concentric spatial form presented in the novel corresponds with the form and meaning of Brahma in Hinduism. The spatial connection modes of the novel bear the essence of the magic and build the spatial form. Part three centers on narrative time of the novel. The concentric form presented via the temporal order implies the form and meaning of Samsara; the sequence of events in the novel echoes with the four stages of Dharma; the temporal misplacement reflects the meaning of maya. At last, the conclusion sums up the paper, and points out that the narrative pattern and meaning in the novel Midnight's Children bring out the best in each other.