![]() ![]() The two-part ways and then meet many years later. Despite Fielding's help, Aziz is constantly worried that Fielding will somehow betray him). Moore, attempts to befriend him.įielding also becomes a friend, and he is the only English person who attempts to help him after the accusation is made. He sees most of the British as enormously rude, so he is pleased and flattered when an English woman, Mrs. ![]() Like many people of his social class, his relationship with the British administration is somewhat ambivalent. Doctor Aziz (the accused man) is a respected member of the Muslim community in India. The main incident of the novel is the accusation by an English woman that an Indian doctor followed her into a cave and attempted to rape her. ![]() Written as a precise mixture between a realistic and recognizable setting and a mystical tone, A Passage to India shows its author as both an excellent stylist as well as a perceptive and acute judge of human character. ![]() But, the novel also demonstrates how friendships attempt (though often failing) to span the gap between the English colonizer and the Indian colonized. The novel now stands in the canon of English literature as one of the truly great discussions of that colonial presence. A Passage to India was written at a time when the end of the British colonial presence in India was becoming a very real possibility. ![]()
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