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A 4 page paper which examines the
cultural assumptions possessed by E.M. Forster, in "A Passage to India," and Chinua
Achebe, in "Things Fall Apart." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAachfor.rtf
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those assumptions or questioning those assumptions. This seems to be the nature of many cultural novels where the narrator, or author, is trying to understand a culture. Two very popular
and famous novels that offer cultural assumptions and then accept them or question them is E.M. Forsters "A Passage to India" and Chinua Achebes "Things Fall Apart." The following paper
examines those novels in relationship to their cultural assumptions. The paper also, at the same time, incorporates some critical reflections maintained by two different essays, "The Geography of A Passage
to India" by Sara Suleri and "Colonialist Criticism" by Chinua Achebe. A Passage to India Forsters novel is one that is clearly a story of cultural assumptions during a
period of history that was very tumultuous. The colonialists of Britain controlled India, yet India at that time in history, was coming closer to its own freedom from the colonialists.
Forster offers a very intriguing tale that illustrates how all the characters have very confusing, but often well intentioned, cultural assumptions. For example, we see characters who want to know
the real India, not the India filled with English customs and English influences. We also see Indians who are willing to see beyond the fact that the English essentially control
them and find a level of peace somehow. But, in the end it seems that each character is unable, for one reason or another, to truly make a stand and
accept the culture they have been exposed to. While the characters may wish to accept them they are constantly questioning them because they do not fit in with the characters
own culture. They may well be, as mentioned, well intentioned, but their own cultures are so strong that they cannot truly accept one another. This is, in regards to the
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