A Passage to India by Foster - Essay Example

Ronny never expected Adela and his mother together along with two Indians. He privately scolds Fielding for doing like that. “Then he hurried to Fielding, drew him aside and said with pseudo –heartiness, “ I say, old man, do excuse me, but I think perhaps you oughtn’t to have left Miss Quested alone .” ( chapter 7). Aziz was rude and irritable at the time.

      The chapter illustrates the difference in the attitude of Aziz, Fielding and Ronny visibly. Aziz never considers western cultural knowledge as a valuable one. The comments about the post-impressionistic school reveal this fact.  Thus it jerks their friendship deeply. Aziz is presented as a typical Indian of that time. Foster scrutinizes the Indian status and Anglo-Indian relations in chapter seven. For all the characters India is a ‘muddle’.  Fielding’s opinion reveals the proper intention of the colonial regime, to implicate England on Indian land without thinking that the traditions cannot be changed. When Ronny is presented as a typical English man who fuses himself strongly to the environment, Fielding represents an idea of liberalism.