A Passage to India

The author of “A Passage to India” uses some other characters that play a role in the intercultural relationships of the novel. These characters, in a way, were portrayed by the author as cruel to the Indians. Major Callendar was proud by torturing the Indians; Mc Bryde thought that the Indians loved the white women and he hated this fact; while Mr. Turton believes he was authoritarian (Devi, 2017). The British administrators and their wives were reserved in their behaviors towards the Indians.…

The India ruled by the British Empire during the XIX century is the framework that a Passage to India is developed. The British gained power in this area due to the instability between several cultures that habited the Indian Territory. Hence, the nation able to master the territory had a great chance to foster its Economic power over the world. Thus, we observe a specific concentration of the British government. Contrary to the colonization processes observed in the Americas, the British…

The British in A Passage to India believed that they “were necessary to India; there would certainly be bloodshed without them” (Forster 103). The Indians, on the other hand, did not feel the same way; they were being oppressed in their own country and they could do very little about improving their lack of power. The English’s strong control is epitomized when two English visitors go on a trip to the Marabar Caves with Doctor Aziz, the main character. One of the English visitors is allegedly…

Power, Distance, and Stereotyping Between Colonizer and Colonized and Men and Women in A Passage to India by Sarah Rhoads Nilsen A Thesis Presented to the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages The University of Oslo In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the MA Degree Spring Term 2011. This study is based on the novel A Passage to India by E.M . Forster and the purpose of this study is to demonstrate how physical distance, social distance, and…

Forster's A Passage to India was published in 1924 after the two individual visits of Forster's to India in 1912 after a few years of World War I in 1921. In the period of his visits to India, Forster met various Indians, among them Syed Masood who became a fast friend of Forster. The connection between them is portrayed by Forster through the friendship between Aziz and Mr. Fielding, the English schoolmaster. Subsequently, Forster had the limited experience of both sides, keeping up a…

The scene under study, from the film A Passage to India, depicts the Englishwoman Adela Quested exploring the local Indian area surrounding Chandrapore and discovering ruins of a native temple. While no words are uttered during this scene, it is crucial for understanding the full scope of the cultural conflict between the native Indians and the English colonisers. It is also worth noting that parallels and comparisons can be formed between the imperialism found in this film and that which can be…

A Passage to India is a novel by the English author Edward Morgan Forster, published in 1924 and took him 12 years to write, so he actually started writing in since 1912. It’s basically set against the British Raj or the British rule in india. This novel is fiction, however it’s based on Forster’s real life experience and incidents he actually witnessed but the rest of the story is definitely made up. Forster used to tutor a young Indian Muslim called Masood in England, they developed a close…

Currimbhoy does not limit himself to characters drawn from the rural society. His characters are also drawn from an urban, sophisticated milieu as in Shanta Rama Rau’s A Passage to India and Nissim Ezekiel’s Nalini and Marriage Poem. The major characters in Inquilab, The Refugee, Sonar Bangla, Thorns on a canvas, The Hungry Ones and The Dumb Dancer are professors, University students, top executives and professionals who use…

Chapter 14 Assignment #2 Half of Ch 14.3 Middle passage, African cottage industries, Quakers views on slavery, Dutch East India Company, British East India Company, Tea and silk from China, missionaries in Japan, “sugar factories”, British and French in North America. 1. Middle Passage- The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. In the Middle Passage, European ships left Europe and…

following analysis is of a passage extracted from Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. This passage is centralised around the date 15th August, 1947 which may be used as a main theme of the novel. The writing style and the writer’s subjective attitude support this. A close reading of the passage shows how meaning is created through character, tone and diction. The writer, being born at the start of Indian independence (free from British rule), represents the entirety of India within his…