What role do Aziz, Fielding and Godbole play in A Passage to India?

   MEG – 03: BRITISH NOVEL

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

4. What role do Aziz, Fielding and Godbole play in A Passage to India?

 

Ans. Alam Friedman describes the theme of personal relations in Forster's novel as a 'Marriage of True Minds' (the phrase is borrowed from Shakespeare's famous poem). He says, " A marriage of true minds is held out like a promise always a little out of each. The obstacles of circumstances, the trials of good faith, the emotional separation which threaten to destroy a final consummation the growing crucialness to the novel's moral resolution of whether they will or will not be united at the end all this and much more makes of their friendship the structural and ritual equivalent to the marriage of hero and heroine in the traditional novel. At first the marriage of Adela Quested and Ronny Haslop, which Mrs Moore has come to India to aid and abet, seems to play the usual structural role, which the issue of marriage regularly plays in organising events and meanings.

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