E. Dward Morgan Forster Analysis

E dward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879, the son of an architect. He attended Tonbridge School, which he hated; he caricatured what he termed "public school behavior" in several of his novels. A different atmosphere awaited him at King's College, Cambridge, which he enjoyed thoroughly.
After graduation, he began to write short stories. He lived for a time in Italy, the scene of two of his early novels: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), and A Room with a View (1908). Cambridge is the setting for The Longest Journey (1907). It was in this year that he returned to England and delivered a series of lectures at Working Men's College. His most mature work to date was to appear in 1910 with the publication of Howards End.
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The British are not shown as tyrants, although they do fail to understand Indian religion and culture. They are also convinced that the British Empire is a civilizing force on the benighted "natives" of India, and they regard all Indians as their inferiors, incapable of leadership. And yet, in their own way, the English try to rule in a just way. Ronny, for example, the City Magistrate is completely sincere when he says that the British "are out here to do justice and keep the peace". And there is no trace of satire in the passage that shortly follows this, which describes Ronny's daily routine: "Every day he worked hard in the court trying to decide which of two untrue account was the less untrue, trying to dispense justice fearlessly, to protect the weak against the less weak, the incoherent against the plausible, surrounded by lies and flattery." Ronny is also aware of the hostility between Hindus and Moslems, and believes that a British presence is necessary to prevent bloodshed. Even Fielding, the most sympathetic of the English characters, does not argue that the British should leave India. However, the British lack any ability to question their own basic assumptions about race and Empire, and as such they become the objects of Forster's biting
Moore's response to India but also in Fielding's. Fielding does not believe in God and therefore has no interest in the contrast between Eastern and Western spirituality, but nonetheless, he feels far more at home with the forms of Western architecture he encounters in Venice than with the temples of India. The temples represent to him merely the "muddle" of India, whereas Western architecture presents him with a view of "the harmony between the works of man and the earth that upholds them, the civilization that has escaped muddle, the spirit in a reasonable form, with flesh and blood