A Passage to India Group

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barirah777
barirah777
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Graduate School

Tell me about wasp in "A Passage to India"? I cant understand why it is included.

Only i understand that Forster wants to emphasize that Hinduism gives equal treatment to wasp like Humanity. But why Godbole not includes Stone in love circle?

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Posted by barirah777 on Saturday March 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM and tagged with a passage to india, symbolism.

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  1. michael336 Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    The wasp symbolizes India itself.  Mrs. Moore admires the wasp for its beauty, especially since it is such an Indian wasp and not at all British.  However, she completely underestimates or ignores its power to sting. 

    In the same way, she admires India's beauty, forgetting that this is a country desperately trying to survive and keep its own identity.  That beautiful "sting" will eventually be aimed at the British raj, as she finally understands at the end of the story, as she leaves to return to England.

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    Posted by michael336 on Thursday August 28, 2008 at 4:45 PM