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The Failure of the “Personal Relations” in A Passage to India
LI Xiao-jiao
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2022.08.006
Wuhan University of Technology, Hubei Wuhan, China, 430070
In the novel, A Passage to India, E. M. Foster showed the failure of Mrs. Moore and Adela Quested to build intimate “personal relations” with the natives in India under the imperial and colonial rule of Britain. As colonists, the British rationalized and strengthened the racial separation and the prejudice and stereotypes against Indians to secure their superior status, while the national conflicts aroused the national awareness among Indian people. Under the adverse political pressure, Mrs. Moore and Adela were not strong enough to hold their grounds but only retreated.
personal relations, racial separation, national conflicts
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, August 2022, Vol. 12, No. 8, 823-825
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