1. The English Character in A Passage to India
In his novel A Passage to India, E.M Forster offers the reader a critique of English colonists, or Anglo-Indians as he refers to them, in colonized India. Forster illustrates in detail the cultural misunderstandings that result when the Anglo-Indian culture, marred by a bigoted and restrictive ethos entrenched in customs that discourage opposition to the masses, clashes with the wholly different culture of the native people of India, "a world whose richness and subtlety they [the English] have no conception- ("Notes on the English Character- 5). ... In contrast to the privacy of England, "...
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