Chandrapore Club Analysis
There was a curious uncertainty about their gestures, as if they sought for a new formula which neither East nor West could provide.49 The behavior of Mrs. Turton is always very haughty. When she is asked by Mrs. Moore, “Do kindly tell us who these ladies are,” asked Mr. Moore?50 The response of Mrs. Turton is very degrading towards the guests: “You’re superior to them, anyway. Don’t forget that. You’re superior to everyone in India except one or two of the Ranis.”51
The changed attitude of Ronny is a question mark for his mother: “What do you and Adela want me to do? Go against my class, against all the people I respect and admire out here? Lose such power as I have for doing good in this country because my behaviour …show more content…
“Indians are not allowed into the Chandrapore Club even as guests. Says Dr. Aziz.”59
Even the English don’t care the religious sanctity of the Indians. Dr. Aziz says to Mrs. Moore, about the entering of the English people and taking off their shoes in the mosque “…but so few ladies take the trouble if thinking no one is there to see.”60
Later on, Mrs. Moore told her son about the mosque incident and conversation with Dr Aziz. Ronny response is very strange and full of rage. Forster depicted it in a very interesting manner.
He didn’t come into the Club. He said he wasn’t allowed to. There upon the truth struck him, and he cried: Oh, good gracious! Not a Muhammedan? Why ever didn’t you tell me? You’d been talking to a native? I was going all wrong …What a mix up! Why hadn’t she indicated by the tone of her voice that she was talking about an Indian? Scratchy and dictatorial, he began to question her, “he called to you in the mosque. Did he? How? Impudently what was he doing him there himself at that time of night? … Now, it’s not their prayer time.” … So he called to you over your shoes then it was impudence. It’s an old trick. I wish you had had them …show more content…
Come along to tea. This world is getting too much for me altogether.’
Aziz was offended. The remark suggested that he, an obscure Indian, had no right to have heard of post- impressionism – a privilege reserved for the ruling race.” 63
The racial problem haunts the communities. When the Marabar Visit is scheduled, Dr. Aziz is in fix about the food and other arrangements:
Then there was a question of alcohol. Mr. Fielding and perhaps the ladies, were drinkers, so must he provide whiskey, sodas and ports. There was the problem of professor Godbole and his food and of Professor Godbole’s and other’s people food- two problems, not one problem. The professor was not strict Hindu- he would take tea soda-water, sweets however cooked them, vegetables and rice if cooked by a Brahman but not meat not cakes, lest they contained eggs, and he would not allows anyone else to eat beef: other people might eat mutton, they might eat ham. But over ham Aziz own religion raised its voice: he did not fancy other people eating ham. Trouble after trouble encountered him, because he had challenged the spirit of the Indians earth which tries to keep men in the
The changed attitude of Ronny is a question mark for his mother: “What do you and Adela want me to do? Go against my class, against all the people I respect and admire out here? Lose such power as I have for doing good in this country because my behaviour …show more content…
“Indians are not allowed into the Chandrapore Club even as guests. Says Dr. Aziz.”59
Even the English don’t care the religious sanctity of the Indians. Dr. Aziz says to Mrs. Moore, about the entering of the English people and taking off their shoes in the mosque “…but so few ladies take the trouble if thinking no one is there to see.”60
Later on, Mrs. Moore told her son about the mosque incident and conversation with Dr Aziz. Ronny response is very strange and full of rage. Forster depicted it in a very interesting manner.
He didn’t come into the Club. He said he wasn’t allowed to. There upon the truth struck him, and he cried: Oh, good gracious! Not a Muhammedan? Why ever didn’t you tell me? You’d been talking to a native? I was going all wrong …What a mix up! Why hadn’t she indicated by the tone of her voice that she was talking about an Indian? Scratchy and dictatorial, he began to question her, “he called to you in the mosque. Did he? How? Impudently what was he doing him there himself at that time of night? … Now, it’s not their prayer time.” … So he called to you over your shoes then it was impudence. It’s an old trick. I wish you had had them …show more content…
Come along to tea. This world is getting too much for me altogether.’
Aziz was offended. The remark suggested that he, an obscure Indian, had no right to have heard of post- impressionism – a privilege reserved for the ruling race.” 63
The racial problem haunts the communities. When the Marabar Visit is scheduled, Dr. Aziz is in fix about the food and other arrangements:
Then there was a question of alcohol. Mr. Fielding and perhaps the ladies, were drinkers, so must he provide whiskey, sodas and ports. There was the problem of professor Godbole and his food and of Professor Godbole’s and other’s people food- two problems, not one problem. The professor was not strict Hindu- he would take tea soda-water, sweets however cooked them, vegetables and rice if cooked by a Brahman but not meat not cakes, lest they contained eggs, and he would not allows anyone else to eat beef: other people might eat mutton, they might eat ham. But over ham Aziz own religion raised its voice: he did not fancy other people eating ham. Trouble after trouble encountered him, because he had challenged the spirit of the Indians earth which tries to keep men in the