"A Faerie Romance" and "Sea of Stories"

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The paper examines George MacDonald's "Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women" and Salman Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" and illustrates how both authors use magical lands as allegorical settings for the transcendence of their characters. The paper analyzes the differences between both works but highlights how even with their differences, there is a power of magic in the settings of both books.

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"Salman Rushdie's Sea of Stories begins when the boy Haroun shouts at his father "What's the use of stories when they aren't even true?". His storyteller father Rashid, whose wife has deserted him with the upstairs neighbor Mr. Sengupta because of his obsession with his work, beckons his son to travel to the source of his father's stories. Haroun travels to this magic land, the Ocean of the Streams of Story on the Moon Kahani, where the language-loving people of Gup City are at war with the silent buy deadly Chupwalls. Eventually, in Rushdie's linear narrative, with the assistance of its magical creatures, the power of storytelling restores the balance of the two countries as well as his father's career."

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