Essays on A Passage to India

This excerpt from E. M. Forster’s novel A Passage to India, is fictional, as well as modernist. The purpose of this essay is to enlighten the reader about the relationship between elements of Forster’s fiction and its modern perspective. The essay will show the reader…

Rudyard Kipling in his poem The White Man’s Burden (1899) says, “Take up the White Man’s burden — Send forth the best ye breed — “Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and…

The books The Lonely Londoners and A Passage to India, both present us with a world that has stark divisions and inequality based on class and race, as words like “spade” are used freely in The Lonely Londoners to label the Caribbean community thus discrimination…

At the time that E.M Forster wrote this novel about his experience about India, the British Raj was going on. The British took over India because they aided them but promised to give them a role in the government. Of course this did not happen…

How are the characters in A Passage to India represented? A Passage to India, reveals that most characters are round characters who have the capacity for development. This is similar to human beings because people do change with time and Forster tries to build authentic…

A commentary on the ways in which Forster presents the Hindu ceremony in A Passage to India Forster uses the Hindu Birth ceremony in the final section, Temple that has the purpose of tying together loose ends and reaching conclusions, to create the atmosphere of…