The Concept of Magic

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The paper illustrates how Robertson Davies created a novel that was engulfed in memories of his childhood and that focused on the magic that exists in life in many ways. The paper looks at how Davies allowed the characters of Fifth Business to examine the magic of religion, the belief in saints, the concept of magic itself and the spiritual belief that each individual has a clear role to play throughout life.

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"His main character, Dunstan, serves as a guide for the novel, because it is through this character that the reader is capable of comparing fantasy to reality, and entering the world that Davis has created. Wendy Faris and Lois Zamora contend that this element is important to magical realism because the author constructs his world in such a way that regardless of how unbelievable the world may be outside of the book, within the book it possesses perfect logic to the reader."

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