In Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children', the fragmentation of the protagonist's body is often interpreted as a metaphor for:

1. The brutal and widespread physical violence that accompanied the 1947 Partition of India
2. The instability and fragility of postcolonial national identity
3. The cumulative physical effects of aging and tropical disease on the human body
4. The mechanical and symbolic breakdown of an industrial machine under colonial capitalism

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