In ancient civilizations, the use of parchment or other writing devices gives us a picture of how human beings reacted to history. Then, history came into another phase. The ancient eras were concerned with the abstract, or virtual, meaning of history. They did not take the material aspect of history as the proper documentation of their lives. History became material i.e., historical documentation switched on to be recorded in advanced chronicles, libraries, periodicals, lecture and so forth (Leech …show more content…
Rushdie opens the story by describing the setting. Rushdie sets the novel on a demarcation line between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He directs the narrative on three sisters who rear up a son named Omar Khayyam. They teach him confidence and instruct him not to succumb to shame, the synonymous word ‘sharam’ in Arabic language. Because of this teaching, Omar becomes interested in women sexually, and he leads a debauchery life, especially in his relations with women. Rushdie puts conflict into the events when another fictional character is suspicious of Omar and his desire to live in debauchery. Yet, the notion of debauchery is close to the theme of shame in the novel, for it is seen in another character. One of the fictional characters, who is twin to another, takes on the shame of the world and becomes a ‘Beast’ symbol. Omar gets married to her, and later this marriage paves the way for his death. By the end of Shame, Sufiya, Omar’s wife, kills him. She decapitates him