![]() The first chapter of the novel starts with a bird's eye view on the landscape that seems to suggest an omniscient and neutral narrator. Modes of Visuality in „A Passage to India“ The conclusion summarises the important aspects and attempts to give an outlook on further questions that could be raised. ![]() ![]() Taking into account that India is a place where not only race determines the hierarchy, but also gender, the role of Indian women in “A Passage to India” will be analysed as well. A main focus of the essay are the mysterious events at the Marabar Caves that raise political tensions between the colonizer and the colonized. Taking into account the importance of the gaps in the narrative, this essay examines how the author creates a world of misunderstanding by the use of shifting perspectives that first seem to produce meaning, but eventually merely emphasize that reality is always a matter of perception. ![]() Justifying these gaps merely with Forster's “dislike of the prominence of a plot in a novel” seems to be too easy, it rather seems that an analysis of these blank spaces opens up new possibilities for understanding the novel as a whole. Whoever tries to analyse Edward Morgan Forster's most enigmatic novel “A Passage to India” has to deal with difficulties that complicate every possible interpretation: The most important events of the narrative are actually untold. ![]()
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