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Chapter 22

1. Summarise

Adela’s

physical and mental states as reported in Chapter Twenty-two. What does Forster intend us to feel about her now?

2. Describe Mrs

Moore’s actions and words. How is she behaving? What is your response to how her character has developed by this point? Slide3

Chapter 23: Mrs Moore leaves India

Forster imbues Mrs Moore’s departure in

Chapter Twenty Three

with considerable significance and profundity.

By what methods does he achieve this?

All of Chapter 23 is focussed on the preparations for and detailing of Mrs Moore’s departure.Slide4

Chapter 23

Forster

imbues Mrs Moore’s departure in Chapter Twenty Three with considerable significance and profundity. By what methods does he achieve this?

SpiritualityThe universeThe impossibility of understanding or containing or classifying or controlling India.Slide5

Chapter 24

This is a perfectly balanced chapter presenting both

the trial itself

the preparation for the trial

&

Mrs Moore is mentioned in the first sentence so her presence remains very strongly in the narrative.

Adela returns to Christianity as Mrs M has abandoned it – its futility is made clear, however

There is a strong sense of two sides but with drifters between…

(Fielding)Slide6

“Thermometer at 112” p.199Slide7

“where

there is

officialism

every human relationship suffers” p.200Slide8

“He [Mr

Turton

]

retained a contemptuous affection for the pawns he had moved about for so many years, they must be worth his pains.” p.200Slide9

p.203

“He

pointed out that—from one point of view—it was

good that an Indian was taking the case. Conviction was inevitable; so better let an Indian pronounce it, there would be less fuss in the long run.”

(Ronny on Das)Slide10

p.203

cf

p.155

“It'll make them squeal and it's time they did squeal.” Slide11

p.204 Mrs

Turton

“Exactly, and remember it afterwards, you men. You're weak, weak, weak. Why, they ought to crawl from here to the caves on their hands and knees whenever

an Englishwoman's in sight, they oughtn't to be spoken to, they ought to be spat at, they ought to be ground into the dust,

we've been far too kind with our Bridge Parties and the rest." Look at note on page 364Important that Forster is using real-life reference points in order to empower

his didactic efforts.

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Mrs Moore’s presence is still being felt –

pages

205 &

207“Mrs Moore was far away at sea”“Mrs Moore’s departure”Slide13

McBryde’s

theory p.206

“Here

Mr. McBryde paused. He wanted to keep the proceedings as clean as possible, but Oriental Pathology, his favourite theme, lay around him, and he could not resist it. Taking off his spectacles, as

was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa— not a matter for

bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm.” Slide14

“Beneath

her were gathered all the wreckage of her silly attempt to see India

—” p.207Slide15

Adela’s doubts – p.207

And then the comedy

of

the man being turned out after interruption. This functions as a warm up to the ridiculous pantomime of all the English climbing onto the platform (and then climbing back down). The trial IS a “farce” as it is later called. Slide16

p.209

“From

where she sat, she could see the renegade

Mr. Fielding. She had had a better view of him from the platform, and knew that an Indian child perched on his knee.”Slide17

p.210

Mrs Moore becomes “

Indianized

” as “a Hindu goddess”, “Esmiss Esmoor”, because she has the power to do ‘right’ and she to them represents fairness, honesty and justice – partly because she’s absent… (It’s ironic, of course, that we are soon to find out that she’s actually dead –p. 231.)Slide18

p.211

“this

is English justice, here is your

British Raj.”“I am not defending a case, nor are you trying one. We are both of us slaves.”“this trial is a farce”Slide19

p.213

“when

Adela came to give her evidence the atmosphere

was quieter than it had been since the beginning of the trial. Experts were not surprised. There is no stay in your native. He blazes up over a minor point, and has nothing left for the crisis.”Slide20

Adela’s uncertainty p.215

"I'm afraid I have made a mistake." Slide21

p.216

“I withdraw everything”

"The prisoner is

released without one stain on his character;”IS HE??!Slide22

What is the significance of the

Punkah-wallah

?

“…no

one remained on the scene of the fantasy but the beautiful naked god. Unaware

that

anything unusual had occurred, he continued to pull the cord of his

punkah

, to gaze at the

empty

dais and the overturned special chairs, and rhythmically to agitate the clouds of descending

dust.”

p.217