LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 9 September 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Personal Relations in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

Iftikhar Hussain Lone, M.Phil.
Syed Amir Syeed

E. M. Forster is interested in the study of personal human relationships. F. R. Leavis calls him "pre-eminently a novelist of civilized personal relation"(Mr E. M. Forster p.102). All the five novels of Forster are studies in personal relationships. Margaret Schlegel, one of Forster's characters, says:

I've often thought about it, Helen. It's one of the most interesting things in the world. The truth is that there is a great outer life that you and I have never touched--a life in which telegrams and anger count. Per¬sonal relations, that we think supreme, are not supreme there. There love means marriage settlements, death, death duties. So far I'm clear. But here is my difficulty. This outer life though obviously horrid, often seems the real one---there's grit in it. It does breed character; do per¬sonal relations lead to sloppiness in the end?" (A View without a Room, p.134)

Forster is primarily concerned with matters of human conduct and especially with the dark places in the human heart which make for unhappiness and confusion, not only between individuals, but between races and nations:

Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas! Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems! You strewed with the wrecks of skeletons that, living, never reached you. (Walt Whitman: “Passage To India”)

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Iftikhar Hussain Lone, M.Phil. English (GNDU Amritsar, India)
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Syed Aamir Syeed
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Department of English
Government Degree College for Anantnag
Anantnag 192101
Jammu and Kashmir
India
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