What happened at the cave is the climax of Forster’s story but also somehow remains a mystery till the end of the book, as he meant to make us focus more about the aftermath of the incident rather than the incident itself, because he originally used this incident to metaphorically describe the British-Indian tension. Inside one of the caves, Mrs. Moore is annoyed by the enclosed space and the crowd and by the abnormal and intolerable echo, she then decides to stay outside the cave for the rest of the journey and suggests that Ms Quested and Dr Aziz continue discovering the other caves but with the guide only rather than with the whole crowd. On their way to the second cave, Ms Quested asks Aziz a personal question about his dead wife which annoys him and makes him leave for a while to calm down, but when he returns he couldn’t find Quested, he asks the guide about which cave she got into but he says that he’s not sure, he then gets informed by Mr Fielding that Quested took a car back home. Back in the city, Dr Aziz unexpectedly gets arrested, as he was charged with attempting to rape Quested while she was in the caves, based on Quested personal …show more content…
Mr Fielding supports Dr Aziz and this angers all the British in India, and Mrs Moore gets back to England as she feels uncomfortable seeing how the English treat Indians and the injustice committed against her friend Dr Aziz. Up till that point in the story Dr Fielding and Mrs Moore presented as openminded British people who refuse to support the injustice just like the rest of their people, and only supports the truth no matter how it would affect them. Ms Quested got ill because of the echo she heard in the cave and she seemed distracted and not sure of who raped her till the trial, then she shockingly declares that Dr Aziz is innocent and that she made a mistake. Dr Fielding recognised and respected Ms Quested bravery and helped her till she left India as all the rest of the British people including Ronny hated her for absolving Aziz and the shame she put them in, especially after the Indians regained their pride in themselves. Also Quested admitted to Fielding that it was the guide who raped her. Dr Aziz got annoyed by this relationship between Quested and Fielding and considered it as betrayal, so the two lost the friendship they had. Forster here portrays the Indian emotional rush and the irrational thinking, because it was essential that Fielding helps Quested, knowing that he is a noble and