A Passage to India

This essay attempts to answer the following questions: How does Forster create mood and theme in the last two paragraphs of chapter 1? How do the last two paragraphs set the reader up for the rest of the novel?

Collectivist attitudes inevitably lead to violence, because collectivism openly flouts the possibility of civil interaction among people who are thought to belong to distinct "groups." E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India" demonstrates such acts of collectivist upheaval.

The setting in A Passage to India is important. This is an analysis of the the opening of the "Caves" chapter. The setting description foreshadows the trip to the Marabar caves with the motifs of nothingness.

This brief analysis of the chapter, "Mosque," in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India discusses the role of the description of the setting in the beginning in the theme of nothingness and foreshadowing the trip to the caves.

E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India" illustrates the inhibitive nature of collectivism to aspiring individuals. Racist hatred of Dr. Aziz, an intelligent and educated Indian, leads the characters in the book to overlook Aziz's virtues and blindly accuse him.