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EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER - Coggle Diagram
EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER
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LIFE
His father died early. However, he studied in King's College in Cambridge
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A PASSAGE TO INDIA
TITLE
Forster wrote the novel in 1913 after visiting India. It deals with the issue of "connection" and the desire to overcome social and racial differences.
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STRUCTURE
The novel has a tripartite structure: mosque, caves, temple.
PLOT
The protagonists are two English women, Miss Adela Quested and Mrs More, who travel to India to see the real life in that country.
An Indian doctor, Aziz, offers them the chance to visit the Marabar Caves.
After the visit, Adela accuses the doctor of physical assault and he is arrested. In the meanwhile, Mrs Moore suffers a nervous breakdown.
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At the end, Aziz sends a letter to Angela to tell her that he has forgiven what the lady made him.
MAIN CHARACTERS
Miss Adela Quested
A young Englishwoman, she is open-minded and she wants to know India.
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Dr Aziz
An Indian doctor who tries to make friends with Adela Quested. He is full of contradictions and he uses a lot of irony.
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THE MARABAR CAVES
They are enclosured, but public spaces with no signs of human presence. The two women have a dramatic experience inside them.
In Hindu mithology they represents the "womb of the universe" and they are linked to the dimension of the subconscious.
STYLE AND SETTING
Forster uses an obtrusive omniscient narrator and he often shifts the point of view from a character to another