Download or read book Intercultural Relationships and National Identities in E M Forster s Novel A Passage to India written by Sarai Jung and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-08-26 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2+ (B), University of Würzburg (Philosophy Institut II - Anglistics), course: Writing the British Empire, language: English, abstract: E.M. Forster ́s novel "A passage to India" was published in 1924. The work is largely based on the personal experiences Forster made during his two visits to India, which are the source of the striking authenticity of the text. Forster experienced the possibility of another view of life, that was opened up to him through his Indian friendships. On the other hand, he got to know the difficulties that spring up from so profoundly different approaches to life as the ones of the West and the East. Due to his own attitude of liberal-humanism and his belief in the freedom of action and the individuality of each human being as the basis for any political action, he was upset by the racial oppression, the cultural misunderstandings and the hypocrisies he found in Anglo-India. Forster ́s novel is clearly concerned with the doubtfulness of the concept of superiority. It puts forth the question to what extent a culture can claim to be a civilized nation and in virtue of what it can be justified to impose one ́s own way of life upon another culture. The author provides us with a vivid picture of Indian concepts and Indian sets of values without judging them or separating right from wrong. His suggestion seems to be to accept the co-existence of such alternatives. More complex is the problem of intercultural relationships. How can barriers be torn down and bridges be built? To this question, Forster does not give a definite answer. He suggests a flourishing interchange between the races until the necessary cultural sensibility is achieved. At several points in the novel, the author hints at the general possibility of a peaceful relation between the two races: All the Indians who had been in England had had only positive experiences. But with

Download or read book A Passage to India written by E.M. Forster and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-09-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Passage to India E. M. Forster - First published in 1924, A Passage to India is E. M. Forsters classic tale of prejudice and misunderstanding in colonial India. Widely considered to be one of the best novels of 20th century English literature, A Passage to India was based on Forsters own experiences in India while it was under the rule of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement was gaining in popularity. The novel centers around the tensions between the native people of India and the prejudices of the British ruling class. The central character is Dr. Aziz, a young Indian Muslim physician, who befriends several English visitors, against the advice of his Indian friends. Dr. Aziz is kind and helpful to the young Adela Quested and her elderly friend, Mrs. Moore, who are visiting India from England. He offers to take them sightseeing at a famous cave and a terrible misunderstanding ensues, which results in the innocent and trusting Dr. Aziz being accused of a terrible crime against Adela. Forsters depiction of Dr. Azizs fight for his freedom and his reputation, against the prejudices and misconceptions fostered by the British rule of India, has made this novel a timeless masterpiece of racial tension and oppression. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

Download or read book A PASSAGE TO INDIA written by E. M. FORSTER and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1969 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting novel, first published in 1924, the murky personal relationship between an Englishwoman and an Indian doctor mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, eager to experience the "real" India, develop a friendship with the urbane Dr. Aziz. While on a group outing, Adela and Dr. Aziz visit the Marabar caves together. As they emerge, Adela accuses the doctor of assaulting her. While Adela never actually claims she was raped, the decisions she makes ostracize her from both her countrymen and the natives, setting off a complex chain of events that forever changes the lives of all involved. This intense and moving story asks the listener serious questions about preconceptions regarding race, sex, religion, and truth. A political and philosophical masterpiece

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Download or read book A Passage to India written by E. M. Forster and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting of A Passage to India is the British Raj, at a time of racial tension heightened by the burgeoning Indian independence movement. Adela Quested, a young British subject, is visiting India to decide whether to marry a suitor who works there as a city magistrate. During her visit, a local physician, Aziz, is accused of assaulting her. His trial brings tensions between the British rulers and their Indian subjects to a head. The novel is a complex exploration of colonialism, written at a time when the popular portrayal of the Indian continent was of mystery and savagery. Forster humanized the Indian people for his at-home British audience, highlighting the damage that colonialism caused not just to interpersonal relationships, but to society at large. On the other hand, some modern scholars view the failure of the human relationships in the book as suggesting a fundamental “otherness” between the two cultures: a gulf across which the disparate cultures can only see each other’s shadows. In any case, the novel generated—and continues to generate—an abundant amount of critical analysis. A Passage to India is the last novel Forster published in his lifetime, and it frequently appears in “best-of” lists of literature: The Modern Library selected it as one of its 100 great works of the 20th century, Time magazine included it in its “All Time 100 Novels” list, and it won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Download or read book The Trouble with Forming Meaningful Bonds in E M Forster s A Passage to India written by Alex Phuong and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 89, California State University, Los Angeles, language: English, abstract: This paper analyzes the different bonds that exist between the characters in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. It deals with the friendships and the heartache that happens when people of various backgrounds come together in India. It might be hard to assimilate different cultures, but the final results are all ultimately a celebration of diversity within the mystical world of early Twentieth Century Indian and British society.

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Download or read book The Structure of E M Forster s A Passage to India written by Wolfgang Bürkle and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: E.M. Forster published his novel A Passage to India in 1924, after he visited India beforehand in 1912 and in 1921. The novel deals in large parts with the political occupation of India by the British army and the concluding relations between the English and the native population. It is also about the friendship between the two main characters, Cyril Fielding and Dr. Aziz, with all its obstacles. A Passage to India wants to describe the differences between the Eastern and Western culture and how they might find together. This seminar paper discusses the relevant parts of the structure of this novel, which help Forster to create the gap between the cultures and the struggle of them getting together. These structural means are the use of a tripartite structure, specific locations and motifs in the novel.

Download or read book A passage to India written by Edward Morgan Forster and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Passage to India By E M Forster Annotated Novel written by E M Forster and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by the English writer E. M. Forster set in opposition to the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement within the 1920s. It turned into selected as one of the hundred amazing works of twentieth century English literature by the Modern Library and received the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine protected the novel in its "All Time one hundred Novels" listing. The novel is based totally on Forster's reports in India, deriving the identity from Walt Whitman's 1870 poem "Passage to India" in Leaves of Grass.The tale revolves round four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Adela Quested. During a ride to the fictitious Marabar Caves (modeled on the Barabar Caves of Bihar), Adela thinks she reveals herself alone with Dr. Aziz in one of the caves (when in fact he is in an entirely special cave), and ultimately panics and flees; it is assumed that Dr. Aziz has attempted to attack her. Aziz's trial, and its run-up and aftermath, bring to a boil the common racial tensions and prejudices among Indians and the British who rule India.

Download or read book A Passage to India written by EM Forster and published by Amaryllis - an imprint of Manjul Publishing House . This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Forster’s personal experiences working and travelling in India in the 1920s, A Passage to India is set in British India in the midst of the Indian independence movement. The story follows an Indian Muslim physician, Dr. Aziz, and his burgeoning friendship with two visiting Englishwomen and Cyril Fielding, a local university principal. Things are brought to a head when during a trip to the Marabar Caves, Dr. Aziz is accused of sexually assaulting one of the women. The subsequent trial is protracted and painful, and serves to highlight the racial tensions between Englishmen and Indians at the time.

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