In the essay "A Passage to India: Analysis and Revaluation,"" Gertrude White defines the novel's theme as " 'the chasm between the world of actions and the world of being;' the search for the wholeness of truth, and the harmonizing 'between Real and not-Real, true and false, being and not-being- (White 52-53). ... The caves serve as both a concrete and an abstract symbol - of darkness versus light, good versus evil, ordinary versus extraordinary, human versus divine, conscious versus unconscious. ...

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