Uluslararası Toplumsal Bilimler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Emine SONAL

Konular:Beşeri Bilimler, Ortak Disiplinler

Anahtar Kelimeler:A Passage to India,E.M. Forster,Friendship

Özet: E.M. Forster is an English short-story writer, essayist, and novelist portraying the early 20th-century British society both at home and abroad. A Passage to India one of his well plotted and the most controversial work is a modernist and postcolonial novel that brought Forster his greatest success. A Passage to India, written in 1914 and published in 1924, is based on his own experience in India as a Private Secretary of the Maharajah of Dewas Senior in India between the years 1912 and 1921. Such experiences enabled him to provide rich materials and deep observation to write A Passage to India. This novel received two prestigious literary awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse. TIME Magazine included the novel as a classic of early 20th-century fiction in its “All Time 100 Novels” list. A Passage to India focuses on political and racial misunderstandings and misinterpretations between the Indians and the British due to cultural conflicts. This novel mirrors the events that happened in India as a colony of the British Empire in the 19th to the mid-20th century. In this paper, Forster will discuss the significance of building a colonial friendship in the context of Aristotle’s theory of friendship to determine whether the colonizer and the colonized share the activity of ideal friendship as depicted in the novel

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