Forster's Liberal Humanism In A Passage to India (1924)

Abstract

This dissertation attempts to clarify historic evidence which can be also known a humanistic problem. In fact, it has been hidden by some westerner historians, and novelists because their works have not dealt with their imperialistic objectives for this reason I rely on Forster liberal humanism which discusses this humanitarian subject matter through this literary level, and also I depend on the historic analysis. Both of them may show me the extensive aims of this personal ideology, and its influences on human history, and modernist literature. In addition, I can reach to his anti-euro centric views, and literary positions through the supporters of his narrative style, and the opponents of his modernist literary thoughts particularly the relationship between the colonizers. and the colonized. The literary outcomes are obtained in this research, and .they are as follows: First, his liberal humanism seems modernist personal ideology which has its own principles, and objectives that are reflected in imperialistic literature as defender, and. doubter novelist. in particular the second chapter .and the third one .Second, .these aspects of liberal humanism depend on his personal convictions through clarification, and ambiguity in this text ,moreover he creates the comparison between his characters who are portrayed as lovers of humanity; and inhumane people. Third, this last result is represented by Forster’s contrasting convictions. That to say, he has double minded thought that can serve imperialistic objectives more than humanitarian deals.