Racial and Cultural Conflict in A Passage to India
"Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. … But {the horses…the earth…the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House… didn't want it,} they said in their hundred voices, "No, not yet," and the sky said, "No, not there." This extract is from the ending part of A Passage to India where meet two of the representatives of the British and the Indians who were friends early in the novel. The British one wants to reconcile but the whole situation opposes it. Thus it clarifies how evident the racial conflict was. E.M. Forster's A Passage to India was written at a time when the end of the British colonial presence in India was becoming a very real possibility. And as a result, racial conflict between the British and the Indians was a recurrent happening in India. As part of the ideology of colonialism, throughout the novel, the English demonstrate their belief t...