![]() ![]() If the message of Howard's End was that private relationships are all, that men must only learn to connect, the message of A Passage to India is that an unjust social order can be a stronger barrier to understanding than even sex that even lover between friends will drown in a sea of racial suspicion and hatred. ![]() ![]() There is less creation, less imagining in it than you would expect from Forster, and more careful, studied understanding of what a people ruled by aliens is really like. It is a political and a social work, both the least personal and the most dramatically constructed of his novels. Part of the reason why A Passage to India is such a great success as a play is that the novel is quite a different sort of achievement from anything else that Forster has written. ![]() She has taken only the hard, tight plot of the book and fashioned of it a play crackling with enormous, concentrated tension, an exciting drama which yet retains much of the novelist's insight and generous wisdom. Santha Rama Rau's stage adaptation of A Passage to India is-not to put too fine a point on matters-superb. Given the possibilities in the book, it was perhaps inevitable that some one would write a play based upon it, and some one has, with astonishing results. Forster's A Passage to India has come to be recognized as one of the finest novels of the century. ![]()
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