Colonial attitudes in "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster.

... Colonial Attitudes in "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster E. M. Forster critiques the colonial mentality in such a way in A Passage to India - the individual characters that constitute the system of colonialism in India are magnified and set as an example of this system. However, a magnifying lens often catches the light and reflects a ghostlike image of the observer over what is observed. So too does Forster's own prejudices and beliefs, rooted in the system of colonialism, appear omnipresent throughout the novel. While making a strong argument against colonialism, Forster is constantly reproducing a notion of the "other," the non-English, non-Western, the non-Forster that compromises the integrity of his novel. Forster's creation of the other begins with his perspectives of the physical India. "There is something hostile in the soil. It either yields, and the foot sinks into a depression, or else it is unexpectedly

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