In this essay, I want to talk about colonialism and the effects it had on the personalities portrayed in the novel “A Passage to India.”Įdward Morgan Forster had gone to India two times by the time he first published “A Passage to India” in 1924 (Hossain, 2012). The result of this was little or no integration at all with the colonialists (Georgi, 2009 as cited in Boehmer, 1995). Because they did not speak English the colonist saw them as being different. The Indians were shown as being of lower rank, second class and outcast in their own country (Georgi, 2009 as cited in Boehmer, 1995). People who colonise foreign lands are often portrayed as colonialists as shown in the novel “A Passage to India” which portrayed the colonist as the superior race and of higher rank ruling over the indigenous Indians (Georgii, 2009). They later proved that they were very useful when it came to defending the foreign lands they colonised (Georgi, 2009 as cited in Boehmer, 1995). This was being practiced before the time of Darwin, who later in a study decided that the Europeans were the best people that could be used as colonist. The doctrine of Colonialism is the study of humans to find out why some groups of people are more suitable for the use as colonist than others (Georgii, 2009 as cited in Boehmer, 1995). Colonialism in Edward Morgan Forster’s novel “A Passage to India”
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