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E .M .Forster in his celebrated novel A Passage to India disseminates a horde of messages , one of which is liberal-humanistic attitude that can help stall SEPARATION , which is again a major theme of the novel . Like Whitman 's cry Passage to more than India , Forster 's novel is more than an historical novel about India : it is a prophetic work in which Forster is concerned not only with the path to greater understanding of India but also with man 's quest for

truth and understanding of the universe he lives in . Forster shows in the novel how man 's attempts to create unity are continually dominated and shattered by forces he cannot control . On this theme of Separation , Lionel Trilling comments , The theme of separateness of fences and barriers , the old theme of Pauline epistles , which runs through all Forster 's novels is in A Passage to India , hugely expanded and everywhere dominant ' The separation of race from race , sex , culture from culture is what underlies every relationship

In this context , the most obvious of these separations is that between the Indians and the English . The earlier part of the novel is concerned with showing the wide gulf between the rulers and the ruled , between the white Englishmen and the colored Indians . As pointed out in the first chapter of the novel , Chandrapore is divided into two sections : the English Civil Station and the Native Section , the one having nothing to do with the other : the Civil Station shares nothing with the city except the overarching sky ' This division in landscape is symptomatic of the wide gulf that separates the rulers from the ruled . Is it possible to be friends with an Englishman 'the Indians ask and Forster 's answer in the novel is a clear NO as long as the English remain unfeeling , proud and autocratic towards the Indians . Even the Bridge Party thrown to bridge the gulf between the English and the Indians ends in a fiasco . After having invited the Indians to the Bridge Party ,the English do not bother to go out and meet them . It goes without saying that after such humiliation , the Indians harbor nothing but a collective attitude of fear and hatred in response to the collective attitude of contempt shown by the Englishmen . Love and fraternal feelings could have been the right way of treating the modest Indians , feels Forster

Another dramatic instance of separation in the novel is that which comes to exist between Aziz and Fielding . Here is a crucial situation in which an Englishman sets aside his snobbishness and attempts a genuine rapport with a warm , impulsive Indian , and yet final understanding is shown to be impossible . It is , perhaps , because the primary barrier between them had been their identities : one a member of the ruler class while the other was a member of the subject race . As Arnold Kettle points out , there are political pressures of imperialism which...