Aziz winds up being arrested for assaulting her. On a trip to visit the Marabar caves, Miss Adela Quested hears a loud echo, which causes her such confusion that the innocent Dr. A Passage to India, though in many respects a traditional English novel, contains one central plot device that links it to the sort of “modern fiction” that Virginia Woolf championed. By this time, modernist experiments with the form of novels had made Forster’s Edwardian works appear old-fashioned. It’s what you want.” As their horses swerve in opposite directions, the landscape itself seems to answer Fielding’s question: “No, not yet… No, not there.”įorster began writing A Passage to India in 1913, after his first visit to India, but did not complete it until after his second visit in 1921. Aziz ride together through the Indian landscape, and, as they embrace, Fielding asks whether it is possible, despite the colonial relationship between England and India, for the two men to be friends: “Why can’t we be friends now? It’s what I want. At the end of the novel, the Englishman Fielding and the Indian Dr. Here, the hoped-for destruction of the barriers of prejudice is deferred. Forster wrote, A Passage to India ( 1924), ends with the question of whether two men can overcome social divisions, not of class (as in Maurice) but of race.
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