Essays on A Passage to India

E.M Forster’s ‘A Passage to India’ is a literary work which operates on two levels simultaneously- personal and impersonal. Scenes involving the innermost thoughts and feelings of the characters alternate with scenes vocalizing the voice of the omniscient narrator, who directly addresses some of the...

In the first fifteen chapters of A Passage to India, E.M. Forster prepares for the tragedy of the Marabar visit rather successfully. The tragedy is perceived as the failure of the Marabar expedition and its aftermath: Adela Quested’s accusation of Aziz’s improprieties, and Mrs. Moore’s...

Emotional Unorthodoxy in Personal Relations Of Forster’s many declarations in his essay “What I Believe,” the most salient is that personal creeds or beliefs “stiffen” a person and render them less open-minded about everything that defies that creed. The budding friendship between Anglo-Indian Fielding and...

One of the driving forces of conflict in A Passage to India is the frequent occurrence of misunderstanding that occurs whenever these groups interact. Of course, “misunderstandings” are frequently innocent and can be smoothed over; attempted rape is heinous and should be treated as such...

At a glimpse, it might seem quite uncanny to compare two such seemingly dissimilar works as Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and A Passage to India by E.M. Forster. Apart from disparity in their length and structure (Heart of Darkness: a novella, A Passage...

While Walt Whitman’s poem “A Passage to India” romanticizes the idea of blended Indian and British nationalities, E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India realistically explores the emergence of Indian nationalism in opposition to British imperial rule. The novel unfolds in post-World War I British India...

Forster’s story in A Passage to India exists outside the physical experiences of his characters. The novel is less a tale about Indian life under British rule than an endeavor to map religious and interpersonal journeys of people. British colonial rule over India is, literally,...

In the preface to The English Novel in the Twentieth Century [The Doom of Empire], Martin Green claims that “One could read all the works of the Great Tradition, and never know that England had an empire”. While this argument could be applied to the...

“Oh why is everything still my duty? When shall I be free from your fuss?” mutters Mrs. Moore as she collapses into the raving madness of spiritual despair (228). After serving as E.M. Forster’s most sympathetic character through nearly all of A Passage to India,...

In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois illustrates the very poignant image of a color line that separates the two races in his society. He introduces the term double consciousness to explain how African-Americans view themselves, not as individuals but as a collective...

Examine the importance of public-school mentality in Howards End and A Passage to India The public-school system remains unique because it was created by the Anglo-Saxon middle classes – how perfectly it expresses their character – with its boarding houses, its compulsory games, its system...

India, an incredibly geographically complex and exotic sub-continent, never unified into one nation, that is until the British arrived. The British East India Company easily embraced the native culture and exploited the region for profits. However, as Indians became restless with British exploitation, peaceful protest...