Research Paper on:
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and Location

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the reader with location and with unique connections between the location and the story, we are provided with a very intense story that would, perhaps, not have succeeded as a  classic novel were the locations to be eliminated. In many ways the location, or specific locations, in this story are characters as they are integrally linked to the people of  India. One cannot seem to separate the two. As such the location becomes the most powerful player in the story set forth by Forster. In the following paper we examine  three of the locations which offer themselves as powerful forces within the story. The locations discussed are the Mosque, the Cave, and the Temple. The Novel In many  ways Forsters novel is relatively simple in its approach to colonialization and romance. It is a bit of a drama. It begins with Adela Quested who "visits Chandrapore with Mrs  Moore in order to make up her mind whether to marry the latters son. Mrs Moore meets his friend Dr Azis, assistant to the British Civil Surgeon" (Anonymous E(dward) M(organ)  Forster (1879-1970), 2002; forster.htm). The women accept an invitation to "the mysterious Marabar Caves. In this trip Mrs Moore nearly faints in the cave and goes mad for an instant"  (Anonymous E(dward) M(organ) Forster (1879-1970), 2002; forster.htm). She eventually believes that Azis sexually assaulted her because she is so confused by her experience in the cave. She finally comes to  her senses and retracts her accusations. However, she has only made matters worse for the relationship between the Indians and the English. Azis is determined to rid his  country of such people, stating, "We may hate one another, but we hate you most. If I dont make you go, Ahmed will, Karim will, if its fifty-hundred years we