Study on the Failure of Connection in A Passage to India

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10.2991/cesses-18.2018.101How to use a DOI?

Keywords

A Passage to India; E.M. Forster; failure of connection

Abstract

A Passage to India poses the question whether it is possible for an Englishman and an Indian to be friends within the context of British colonialism. Forster uses this question as a framework to explore the general issue of Britain’s political control over India on a personal level. He explores the issue of connection on the basis of three groups of people: the general Anglo-Saxon People in India, the pro-Indian British, and the Indian people. After analyzing the relations of these three groups of people, this paper concludes that it is mainly due to the colonist domination that distorts personal relations and leads to the final failure of connection.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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