A Passage to India door E.M. Forster

In ‘A Passage To India’ the young, English woman Adela Quested travels to India to meet her future husband Ronny. She travels with Ronny’s mother, mrs. Moore. This is in the time when India was a Brittish colony, and Brittan rules a great part of India. Adela and Mrs. Moore want to see the real India and want to meet real Indian people but the other Brittish people think that is really strange. Then they meet Mr. Fielding, he is the principal of a school. He introduces them to Dr. Aziz, he’s already very fond of Mrs. Moore. He wants to make a good impression and invites them to a picknick by the Marabar Caves. He later regrets that because it costs him a lot of work and a lot of money. Meanwhile, Adela has decided she wants to marry Ronny. When Adela, Aziz en Mrs. Moore and a lot more people get into the Caves, Mrs. Moore gets scared by the echo of the cave and she runs off. Adela and Aziz decide to go further with the two of them and a guide. When Aziz goes off to smoke, Adela goes into a cave by herself, she hears the echo and she realizes that she doesn’t love Ronny and she runs off. When Aziz, Mrs. Moore and Mr. Fielding, who came later, come back to Chandrapore Aziz gets arrested. Adela claims that he has raped her. This case goes to trial and Adela confesses that he didn’t rape her and that she doesn’t love Ronny. Aziz is very mad and he doesn’t want to have any contact with the Brittish. Also, Adela is very lonely, because the Brittish people have abandonned her. She goes back to England. And meanwhile Mrs. Moore has died on the boat back to England. A couple of years later Mr. Fielding goes back to India to find Aziz. Aziz doesn’t want to have anything to do with him, because he thinks Fielding married Adela. But that isn’t true, because Mr. Fielding married Stella, the daughter of Mrs. Moore. The titel is ‘A Passage To India’ because the story is about what happened on the passage to India of Adela and Mrs. Moore. This book is about the differences between the Brittish and the Indians, the difference between the rulers en the ruled. And about the sentiments that connect people and the prejudices that devide them. The expedition to the Marabar Caves is symbolic for the of the distortions of understanding between cultures and the unjustice that occurs people hold power over other people. In this story, Adela wants to see the real India, she gets overwhelmed by what she sees and the discovery that she doesn’t really love Ronny. When I first saw the movie, I thought it was a very weird and difficult story, with a lot of things that the maker meant, but you couldn’t see. But after seeing it a second time I understood the story better. I liked it better too, you see the differences between the two cultures very well. And I think this wasn’t such a good journey for Adela and Mrs. Quested, they were both hurt when they wanted to see the real India, all the things they saw were fatal to them. I sympathized with Aziz, he was trying so hard to make a good impression, but everything failed, I could understand him very well, when he was leaving Brittish India. I think this story tells you what could happen when people try to rule over people with an other culture very well.