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A Passage to India
in the first part of the novel, Adela develops feelings of confusion because of traveling to India, settling into a new culture, and having issues with her fiancé. The trip by ship to India was...
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A Passage to India
Nature in A Passage to India is used in building atmosphere and in symbolism. Forster refers to nature continuously throughout the novel, and often to build the atmosphere of a location or event....
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A Passage to India
Herd instinct, or herd mentality, is an economics term which describes how people are influenced by those around them to adopt certain behaviors, follow trends, and/or purchase items. Forster...
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A Passage to India
In A Passage to India, Forster suggests that culture clash is one reason why Indians and the British cannot be friends. Life in Chandrapore is filled with colliding values between Indians and the...
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A Passage to India
The incident at the Marabar Caves proved to be a significant turning point in the relationship between the Indians and the British in A Passage to India. There had been existing tension between the...
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A Passage to India
The Marabar Caves cover that question. At first, I thought the question was going to involve finding a different, specific thing/event for each element. But the caves and the echoes that come...
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A Passage to India
The message of A Passage to India is that the British imperialistic approach is not a recipe for long-term success. Forster sees "white man's burden" ideology as a part of the British approach to...
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A Passage to India
The meaning of the novel's ending is that friendship between Aziz and Fielding is not possible at this time in Indian history. The opening of the last chapter features Aziz and Fielding believing...
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A Passage to India
The trial displays the clash of cultures that underscores the British presence in India. Leading into the trial, there had been a clear division of cultures between India and the British. This...
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A Passage to India
Given Adela's actions during the trial, she was not right in her accusation of Dr. Aziz. The reality is that once she changes her testimony and recants, Adela stops the machinery that she herself...
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A Passage to India
In A Passage to India, Forster suggests that the official British approach and attitude towards the indigenous people will lead to inevitable conflict and failure. Ronny Heaslop is one of the best...
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A Passage to India
Forster presents all followers of religion as capable of being more inclusive in A Passage to India. Forster shows that the people who practiced the dominant religions in India focused on...
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A Passage to India
Indigenous people in A Passage to India are presented as unable to effectively live under British rule. Indigenous people in A Passage to India find it difficult to live under British ways of life....
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Rudyard Kipling
Late in EM Forster’s novel A Passage to India, Aziz and Cyril Fielding, the rare example of an enlightened Englishman, are riding horses and discussing Aziz’s ordeal while speculating –...
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Rudyard Kipling
In looking at works by Forster and Kipling, there are some critical elements that can be established in terms of exploring how the romance quest defines colonial perceptions of India. One part is...
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A Passage to India
Forster was of a liberal and humanist disposition, and placed utmost emphasis on the importance of personal human relationships, yet he constantly shows that personal relations cannot withstand the...
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A Passage to India
I think that one could make the argument that there is much within Forster's work which can operate as a Postcolonial work. One reason is because the work deals with race in India between Indians...
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A Passage to India
Many of the traditions that Forster addresses are fundamentally distinctive of Indians, while many of the habits are sadly universal. One such "Indian" habit that Forster addresses is the...
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A Passage to India
Friendship is a central theme of the novel. Forster uses it to highlight the problems caused by society and in particular, society in a colonised country. The three major friendships of the novel...
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A Passage to India
The main aim of the book is to show what a damaging effect colonisation has on both coloniser and colonised. The English appear generally cold and unbending towards the Indians, and behave with...
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A Passage to India
Much of the focus of the novel is on the educated Muslim class, as represented by Aziz and his closest social circle. However, overall the novel provides quite a comprehensive picture of Indian...
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A Passage to India
Forster's answer is that friendship between individual Indians and English people is possible, at least for a time; but as a whole, the two races will not be able to forge a genuine connection...
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A Passage to India
Forster in this famous novel presents the reader with a typical view of how the British viewed the Indians that they ruled over in the colonial Raj. It is important to identify how Forster develops...
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A Passage to India
This novel acts as a powerful investigation into the reality behind the myth of the "white man's burden," which is the phrase that Kipling used to describe the vital need that Englishmen had to...
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A Passage to India
This great book clearly comments on the massive gulf separating the English from the Indians, and the way that even those who try to bridge that gulf find it impossible, such as Fielding in his...
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A Passage to India
E.M. Forster's novels, including "A Passage to India," are astute observations of the role economic class has long played in British society. That role extended to British administration of its...
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A Passage to India
There is a definite sense in which in this text there is equal presentation of material that could be considered comic as well as as cosmic. There is definitely lots of comic material in the...
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A Passage to India
Mrs Moore acts as a bridge between East and West without even knowing it. While other characters make judgements and divisions according to race, colour, and creed, Mrs Moore looks to make simple...
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A Passage to India
In dealing with death, this quote from Forster's novel has application/relvance to Salinger's novel: “But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long...
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A Passage to India
The original question had to be edited down. I think that the idea of injustice in both works can be seen in that the legal system fails to deliver justice. The legal system of justice in Salem...
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The Catcher in the Rye
One particular similarity between both works is the idea of the culture clash. In Salinger's work, Holden's beliefs and his demeanor are ones that clash with the immediate conformist culture...
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A Passage to India
I think that the commentary on this statement about Forster's work will be a complex one. On one level, I think that there is something about the statement that is absolutely valid. Forster...
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A Passage to India
The massive clash of cultures that lies at the heart of this excellent novel is shown through the Anglo-Indians and the Indians that are presented to us in the novel. The Anglo-Indians seem to...
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A Passage to India
I think that there might need to be q couple of points that need to be examined further in the original question. The idea of "the Indian Landscape" needs more clarity. If we are suggesting that...
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A Passage to India
The narrative of the novel unfolds according to the different seasons and their corresponding weather conditions. The first section of the novel, "Mosque", is dominated by cool weather and its...
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A Passage to India
It has nothing hideous in it, and only the viewis beautiful; it shares nothing with the city except the overarching sky. In order to determine if there is symbolism in "the overarching sky," we...
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A Passage to India
The echo can turn out to mean a couple of things. On one hand, Adela feels that the echo refers to the idea of how the notion of evil is close at hand. Towards some extent, she has unleashed a...
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A Passage to India
In many ways, I think that Forster might be suggesting that there is division present in parts one and three. This helps to bring out the idea that India is going to be a divided land internally...
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A Passage to India
I think that the significance of the ending cannot be overstated here. This would be one of the first locations where I would move towards in terms of assessing the meaning of the barriers that...
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A Passage to India
To a great extent, Major Callendar's ignorance of Indian life is demonstrated with his own sense of being. Major Callendar is shown to have the faintest notion of what it means to understand...
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A Passage to India
I think that there are a couple of elements needed here. On one hand, many nationalist critiques of Western works of "the other" have some value. In the end, the nationalist critiques help to...
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A Passage to India
The main character in Forster's novel, Dr. Aziz is pleasant man, typically eager to please others. Unfortunately, he often acts hastily, without thinking through his actions carefully, and the...
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A Passage to India
The tripartite structure of A Passage to India accomplishes a number of objectives that unify the novel. Each of the three sections functions in at least four ways: The first division, "Mosque," is...
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A Passage to India
I certainly think that Forster makes the argument that it would have been difficult for Aziz to receive a fair trial. The idea of "the machinery had already started" brings to light that Adela's...
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A Passage to India
Miss Quested's accusation of rape is one of the most critical elements of Forster's novel. On one level, I think that the most literal understanding of the novel could center on the rape...
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A Passage to India
"Friends again," begins the last chapter of A Passage to India, but despite this promising beginning, we're hardly left with an image of brotherly love. The last chapter follows Fielding and Aziz...
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A Passage to India
Subtle and rich in symbolism, A Passage to Indiaworks on several levels. On the surface, it is about India - which at that time was a colonial possession of Britain - and about the relations...
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A Passage to India
One instance of moral ambiguity concerns the Caves and the events that happened in them. Forster gives little in way of clarity as to what happened in the Caves between Azis and Quested. Due to...
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A Passage to India
I think that this becomes one of the most challenging elements in Forster's work. Part of where the difficulty lies is in trying to figure out whether or not Forster is depicting Hinduism in a...
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A Passage to India
Part of the reason why the ending of the book does not lead to overall friendship between Aziz and Fielding is because of Forster's assertion that the culture divide and clash is too formidable to...