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Postmodern writers constantly engage themselves in a deliberate reshaping or deconstruction of myth and fairy tales largely by parodying them through theme, motif and characters. For instance, they turn the source tale’s plot upside down, alter the closure, and employ unreliable narrator, negative heroes and magical realism. Myths, folklores and fairy tales are embedded in the narratives of Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison, signify the two fold operation of postmodernism as an exploration of earlier art, culture and the impact of contemporary culture and society. This paper aims to unravel the cultural elements such as fairy tales, folklores, mythology and their functions in the postmodern aesthetics which deify the conventional perspective on them in the novels of Atwood and Morrison.