A Comparison Of Magical Realism And Man's Search For Meaning

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Magical Realism and Man's Search for Meaning



Five Works Cited Real life experiences that happen in a person's life are important, and these are what magical realism is all about. The meaning of life is wrapped all into our way of living. The world is full of passion and magic and without this passion and magic the world would not exist. Victor Frankl, a 2oth century psychiatrist, had this passion as well as a lot of other people who have survived many obstacles in their lives.

Magic is the marvelous in reality. Everyday living is magic alone, trying to survive the rat race of today's society, yet the marvelous is there, too. Simpkins spoke of the marvelous, fantastic, and other things pertaining to magical realism (146). Simpkins states that magical realism appears to overcome the "limits" of realism (145).

Leal also has given his opinion of the magic and the passion of magical realism. Leal spoke of the emotions that magical realism has. He states that magical realism is unreal and fantasy like fairy tales or made up stories (119). Leal states that the job of magical realism is to express the …show more content…

Both stories had passion in the people's lives, enough to make the magical realism show. Everything seemed so real in the story of Like Water for Chocolate and in Frankl's story of Man's search for Meaning. Both stories had grotesque things happen, also for example, in Frankl's story,all the killing and the holocaust of being in a prison camp for so long and knowing that his family was murdered and there was nothing anyone could do about this tragedy. In Tita's story, the tradedy was the fact that the love of her life was marrying her sister and there was nothing she could do about this situation. The power of passion was with the characters in the stories even though one was real and the other was

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