Theme of Midnight’s Children

Abstract

The theme of the novel joins reality with the imagination of the novelist. Indeed the actual and the fancy move side by side. The events move around the exact time of independence of India and the protagonist also born at the same time. The theme of the novel is to exhibit the Indian society after independence and to focus on its various aspects. It is the story of the pain of the people. After independence there is a bloody partition of the country which makes people to kill each other mercilessly in the name of the religion. The protagonist of the novel, who is born along with India, considers himself to be the main centre of events. This novel is based on the memory of the protagonist who tries to remember some of the most important events of his life and then records them.