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How the English character is presented in 'A Passage to India'
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How the English character is presented In 'A Passage to India' E.M. Forster, the author of 'A Passage to India' and other various stories and papers, suggest in 'Notes on the English Character' that the English people have the mentality and character of the middle-class. Since the power in England since the mid 1800's has been in the hands of the middle-class, the English characters in general has become like the middle-class. These characteristics include 'Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy.' These characteristics are explained in the paper written by Forster, but it is also shown through the characters in his novel, 'A Passage to India'. This essay will see how Forster describes the English in his notes and how he inputs his thoughts of those thoughts to the English characters is his novel. "Just as the heart of England is the middle classes, so the heart of the middle classes...
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