"They (Indians) are not to blame, they have not a dog's chance--we should be like them if we settled here" (184)
- Mr. McBryde, A Passage to India, 1912
During the early 1900s, the British people had been living among the Indian culture for an extended period of time. Several discrepancies had been established between these two groups due to stereotypes, prejudices, and ignorance. E.M. Forster implied his deepest aspirations for accord to ameliorate this quandary in his erudite novel, A Passage to India, written in 1912. Through specific usage of certain landscape features, a sound, and animals, the omniscient narrator explores the idea of an all-encompassing unity and its beneficial and corrosive possibilities.
Forster gives a very detailed description of each location throughout the novel. When describing the neighborhood near the Ganges River, he shows how harmony is exists with both tragedy and joy.
The narrator describes the area as:
."..so abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, welling here, shrinking there, like some low, but indestructible form of life" (2).
The statement constantly juxtaposes good outcomes with bad outcomes. The river washing out the outgrowth had been a good thing for the landscape. It, however, had destroyed several villages. The destruction, fortunately, allows the village's people to unite and rebuild their community, making their relationships with each other "indestructible." The speaker continues to describe Chandrapore. He illustrates a simple, yet exotic t...
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...en if it only exists for a split second. However, when her curiosity is satisfied with one observation, then disturbed by another, she returns to confusion. Perplexity gives birth to ignorance. Ignorance gives birth to hate.
Chauvinism. Biased dispositions. Bigotry. Unity could be a solution to effect an end to these ideals, however, it begets both advantageous and unfavorable aftermaths. One cannot exist without the other. The speaker presents this item through his vivid description of the landscape, an omnipresent reverberation, and the symbols creatures of the earth represent. The reader realizes that the world encompasses both the good and the bad and that the two entities modulate each other. Forster's main objective had been to tell the reader to focus on the good, and learn to adjust to the bad; living by such a way will result in true harmony.
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