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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
E. M. Forster responds to the religious complexity of India in much the same way that he responds to its racial and social complexity. He presents two paradigms, one of conflict and the other of...
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A Passage to India
Primarily, A Passage to India is not a historical novel because the action takes place roughly at the time the novel was published (1924). While E. M. Forster does concern himself with the current...
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A Passage to India
I am assuming that you are referring to A Passage to India by E. M. Forster? If so, I would have to disagree with this statement. I think this is a multi-layered novel and that history and...
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A Passage to India
The entire novel is basically a portrayal of the racist nature of the British Raj and the uncomfortable (to put it mildly) situation in which Indian people, including the most highly educated ones,...
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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
Clive Bell's influential volume of aesthetic criticism, entitled simply Art (1914), is best known for its articulation of three notions which ultimately became catchwords not only in his immediate...
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A Passage to India
Aziz has carefully planned a day trip to the mysterious Malabar Caves. He's invited Mrs. Moore, Adela, Prof. Godbole, and Cyril Fielding. Adela's fiancé Ronny has given her permission to go to 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
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
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
Fielding does not believe Aziz is guilty. He thinks he knows Aziz and believes that there is no way he could have sexually assaulted Adela. He defends Aziz against the accusations and when Aziz is...
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A Passage to India
This novel of Forster's is widely regarded to be his best, analysing the nature of the relationship between the British colonisers and the Indian people during the time of the British Raj, and also...
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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
This novel also deals with such themes as friendship, public and private life, and ambiguity ("mystery" and "muddle"). Aziz and his friends discuss whether it possible to be...
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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
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
Ronny is the son of Mrs. Moore, the elderly Englishwoman who comes to India with Adela, the girl whom Ronny is supposed to marry. Ronny and Adela met in England, but Ronny, who is the City...
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A Passage to India
The incident in the mosque in chapter 2 provides a very good illustration of how Forster handles narration, point of view, and perspective. While staying in a third-person omniscient narration, the...
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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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A Passage to India
There are several ways to read the theme of separation in Forster's work. In my mind, the most evident theme of separation is that of cultural distance between the Indians and the British. Due to...
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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
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
Forster uses the titles of the sections to foreshadow what is to come in each part. Each section focuses on a specific group of people, a specific season, and a certain kind of behavior in each of...
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A Passage to India
On a simple level, the Marabar Caves are the setting of the crucial event in A Passage to India: Adela's accusation that Dr. Aziz has sexually assaulted her. Adela's charge against Aziz makes...
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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
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
A Passage to India was written between 1912 and 1921, at a time when the British domination in India started to be strongly questioned. (India did not, however, achieve its independence until 1949,...
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A Passage to India
I think that you can place your focus on how Fielding is the only sample of hope for both sides in the Anglo-Indian relationship. Forster spends a great deal of time in the novel exploring the...
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A Passage to India
The major themes in the story involve: 1. The ruptured relationship between the British and the Indian population. 2. Racial tension 3. Labeling and stereotyping 4. Human rights and relations 5....
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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
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
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
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...
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A Passage to India
Forster suggests at the end of the novel that a friendship between a British and an Indian citizen can't be endured. It can begin and develop to a certain point, but it can't last. Aziz tells...
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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
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
One of the most prominent symbols in A Passage to India, one that dominates section one of the book's three sections, is the mosque. The mosque of India represents a place of sanctuary and peace....
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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
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
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
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
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
If there is any hope for Anglo- Indian relationships, it is brought out through the relationship between Aziz and Fielding. It is the only association which, for the most part, transcends the...
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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...
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A Passage to India
Perhaps, the answer to Forster's philosophy to existence lives inside the cave. The darkness, the nothingness, the everythingness seemed to envelop much for Forster. Inside the cave, everyone is...
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A Passage to India
There are strong elements of both sociological realities in Forster's work. They play a rather definitive role in the plot structure and development. I might posit that the individual nuances of...
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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
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...