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...scene at the Marabar caves is good-the painful, amusing attempts of a poor young Indian to impress two foreign ladies are nearly successful. Only one thing mars the picnic. Miss Quested, in a disturbed state, leaves the party and they return to Chandrapore without her-to discover that she has accused Dr. Aziz of attempted rape...
...Fielding, a wise English teacher who is immediately attracted to Aziz. And two Englishwomen: Miss Adela Quested is a frigid young thing, engaged to an English magistrate in Chandrapore; and the mother of her fiance is Mrs. Moore. They accept Aziz's invitation picnic with him at the Marabar caves...
...novel, she managed to extract the center while not damaging its heart. The play begins with an amplification of the Chandrapore tea party (Chapter 7 of the book), pitching together the bearers of Eastern and Western culture. The second act ably gets across the difficult scene in the Marabar Caves, where a young English miss neurotically imagines that she has been raped by Dr. Aziz, the thin-skinned Moslem. The action moves on to the British club and the shocked reaction of the other colonials, ends with the novel's trial scene (in the book, 13 more chapters follow...
...lined "ABC", the authors of "Colloquy on Robert Lowell," are actually Joel Dorius, Robert E. Garis, and S. F. Johnson, three teaching fellows in English, who discuss the Pulitzer Poet with lively dialectical ease. Andrew Eklund's "Forster and the Marabar Caves" is an exceptionally clear exposition of both Forster's development and Eklund's own response. You may wish to disagree with Eklund's contention that an artist's work may be examined for a "particular point of view, without attempting to equate the examination with any literary or artistic judgment," but Eklund consistently presents his argument, concerned more...
...imaginative creation is Dr. Aziz. With his emotionalism, his ready tears, his hunger for affection and his sudden patronizing of the people who respond to it, his humor and his brilliant discourses on the Mogul Emperors, his absentmindedness (after he had arranged his mighty expedition to the famed Marabar Caves he asked: "By the way, what is in these caves, brother? Why are we going to see them?"), Dr. Aziz tells U.S. readers more about the secret places of the Indian heart than any living Indian...