Maurice | Themes
The theme of Maurice relates directly to the tided character's homosexuality, in that it becomes the metaphor for both the pain and the joy of growth in a repressive society. It also takes the form of freedom from that society. Maurice Hall's "surroundings exasperate him by their very normality," wrote Forster in his September 1960 "Terminal Note": "mother, two sisters a comfortable home, a respectable job gradually turn out to be Hell; he must either smash them or be smashed, there is no third course." Thus, rather than essentially repeat the same story told in at least three of H....
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