Interpretation of E.M.Forster's Duality of Thoughts in A Passage to India from the Perspective of Auditory Narrative
A Passage to India is one of the representative works of the 20th-century British author E.M.For-ster.The soundscape in the novel,such as human voices in dialogue,echoes in caves,and the noise of celebrations,contributes to the character portrayal and links the development of events and changes in the characters'inner worlds,endowing the novel an inherent logic.Analyzing from the perspective of auditory narration,this article re-veals that E.M.Forster places Indians in the"being heard"position to criticize privilege,while the fear of hallucina-tory echoes in the Marabar Caves and the resistance to the so-called irrational Eastern auditory mode demonstrate the author's internalized"Orientalism"and colonial obsession.The author's depiction of sounds in the novel and the characters'perceptions of these sounds exposes his duality of thought:dissolution of imperial dominance and the obsession with colonial power.
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