A Journey to India

A long novel by the English novelist Forster (1879-1970). Mainly recounts the sights and sounds of two English women in India. Miss Quisty accompanies Mrs. Moore on a long journey from England to India to visit her boyfriend, Ronnie, who is not yet officially engaged. Ronnie is Mrs. Moore's son and works as a judge in a small Indian town called Chandrapal. One day, Mrs. Moore and the Indian doctor Eshi Shi encounter; Mrs. kind-hearted, gentle attitude, to the doctor left a deep impression. Later, Dr. Eichers invited Mrs. Moore, Miss Quisty, Mr. Fielding, a British friend, and a few indigenous friends to visit the local attraction, Malabar Cave. The interior of the cave is dark and stuffy, with echoes of the cave within the cave. As Fielding was late and Mrs. Moore was old and tired, Miss Quisty accompanied Dr. Esses into the cave. When she entered a certain cave, she suddenly heard Dr. Essies outside the cave looking for her call, suddenly panic, seem to think that Dr. Essies want to molest her, and hastily run away. Dr. Elsie was arrested and imprisoned for this crime. Mrs. Moore sailed home angrily before the trial, and died on the way. Miss Quisty, when she comes to her senses, withdraws the charges against Dr. Esses, who leaves the country to earn his living elsewhere.

The novel reflects the tragedy of racial tension and antagonism through the experiences of two British women in India. The heroine of the novel, Miss Quisty, is fantastical and has a typical Western education. She longs for the unknown - the Eastern civilization - however, the superiority complex displayed by the local British colonial officials crushes her dreams and keeps her in a state of psychological tension and worry. When she enters the cave and hears the echoes of confusion, she has a near mental breakdown and hallucinates that the Indians are trying to humiliate her. Obviously, Miss Quisty is a wandering character between the Eastern and Western civilizations, longing for the former but unwilling to give up the latter; "Malabar Cave Incident" is just a concrete manifestation of her spiritual crisis. Mrs. Moore came to India with good intentions, hoping to make friends with the natives and achieve the purpose of communication between East and West. The behavior of the local British colonial officials, represented by her son, made her wish come to naught, and the "Malabar Cave Incident" made her physically and mentally exhausted. The figure of Mrs. Moore is the embodiment of the humanitarian ideology of equality, fraternity and freedom. Another attempt to communicate between the East and the West in the work is the hero, Dr. Elsie, who is a representative of the new generation of Indian intellectuals. He is a representative of the new generation of Indian intellectuals, warm and generous, and concerned with friendship. Like Mrs. Moore, he is also a victim of this attempt. However, it is this failure that makes more people realize that: if the Indians want to be real friends with the British, then India must be independent; if man and man, nation and nation want to get a real understanding, then the first prerequisite is the equality and freedom of both sides. This is the thematic idea of the work.

The work is finely written, with a playful, ironic language that sets the tone of the novel. "The Malabar Cave Incident is the pivot of the story, the *** of the plot - the sea is calm, then a storm rises, then it is calm again, leaving only ripples - nothing has changed, but it is as if the sea has changed, as if the sea has changed. -Nothing has changed, but it is as if everything has changed. The work is written using symbolism, with a profound and intriguing meaning. If the mystery of Malabar Cave is the symbol of Eastern civilization, then "Malabar Cave Incident" symbolizes the failure of the attempt to communicate between Eastern and Western civilizations. In addition, the Hindu festival at the end of the novel, celebrating the birth of the goddess of love, also has a symbolic meaning.