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• W94661035 abstract "Abstract Muriel Spark's Symposium (1990) focuses on problems of perception of truth about persons by creating multiple layers of meaning. Narrative voices, time and incidents are juxtaposed by Spark to create simultaneity of perception of different fragmentary episodes in novel. In teaching this novel unconventional plot-structure and characterization should be examined to study change in idea and function of character and plot in novels. ********** The complex relationship between fiction and reality has been a persistent concern of Muriel Spark (1918-), contemporary Scottish writer. The opacity of human nature, human tendency to deform reality through imagination and fantasy, are issues Spark explores by means of innovative narrative techniques in her novels. Reality is seen to be extremely deceptive and this idea is brought out through plot structure and characters in her fiction. The concern with ontological issues is chief characteristic of fiction; as Marguerite Alexander states, postmodernist texts pose questions about nature of reality, modernist texts about how we can know a reality whose existence is not ultimately in doubt(Alexander 1990, 22). Postmodernist writings present reality not as a static entity, but as a complex phenomenon that undergoes a transition as new facts come to light. In fiction of late twentieth century, search reality becomes an ongoing process, a continuous quest that is never completed. Muriel Spark's novel Symposium (1990) is an interesting novel to teach in class as it is concerned with process of understanding people in their wholeness and with difficulties encountered in evaluating people fairly. The narrative technique persuades general reader to agree with idea of protagonist being a witch who means harm to everyone. Students, by focusing on narrative strategies and through insightful guidance of teacher come an awakening of 'truth' about Margaret's character. In this novel Spark presents extremely difficult task of knowing other person. In social encounters, several problems of egoism, vanity and unconsciously realized motives create veils and barriers between people causing them to formulate opinions about others. These opinions created about other persons are gradually realized to be incomplete and may even become destructive. They sometimes take shape of myths that compel 'other' to conform to these images consciously or unconsciously. In teaching Symposium, students should be assigned task of identifying complex narrative strategies employed by writer to highlight complexity of interpersonal relationships, which is principal theme of novel. Marguerite Alexander states that late twentieth-century fiction deals with the treacherous nature of appearance and continues: for baffled readers that treachery is not always held within frame of novel, but something of which they are themselves victims (Ibid., 3). The protagonist Margaret Damien is presented from multiple perspectives and is constructed as an evil character. Different characters perceive her as one who has been secretly involved in criminal acts and malign her social reputation. Spark's technique of narration deludes reader and critic into accepting views formulated by other characters about Margaret. Gabriele Annan in a review titled Sociable Murder describes Margaret as a young Scottish witch of middle class who has an evil eye, and goes on to discuss her crimes thereby failing to pick up clues offered by narrator throughout novel about Margaret's innocence (Annan 1990). Margaret is shown to reader at specific critical junctures in her life, when these crimes are committed. Yet her participation or her non-participation in these happenings is not explicitly shown or commented upon. …" @default.
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