A great novel by E.M.Forster

1. Welcome…

2. By
Prof.R.R.Borse,
Asst.Prof.,
BP Arts,SMA Sci,KKC Com.College,Chalisgaon

25. Plot summary
Arrival
 Two British women Adela Quested, and her elderly friend, Mrs. Moore, visit the
city of Chandrapore, British India to be friend with Indians.
 Adela is to decide if she wants to marry Mrs. Moore's son, Ronny Heaslop, the city
magistrate.
 Dr. Aziz, a young Indian Muslim physician- he thinks it is possible to be a friend of
an Englishman.
 At mosque he enters and meets an Englishwoman Mrs. Moore, and the two chat
and part as friends.
 Mrs. Moore returns to the British club shares her experience at the mosque with
Adela and Ronny.
 Ronny Heaslop, her son, initially thinks she is talking about an Englishman and
becomes angry when he learns the facts.
 Adela is excited to meet Indians.

26. Bridge Party
 Mr. Turton, the city tax collector, invites numerous Indian gentlemen to a
party at his house to help the Englishwomen to meet Indians. The two
groups British and Indians show a drama of harmony.
 Adela meets Cyril Fielding, principal of Chandrapore's government-run
college for Indians. Fielding invites Adela and Mrs. Moore to a tea party
with him and a Hindu-Brahmin professor named Narayan Godbole.
 At Adela's request, he also invites Dr. Aziz.

27. Fielding's tea party
 At Fielding's tea party, everyone has a good time conversing
about India, and Fielding and Aziz become friends.
 Aziz promises to take Mrs. Moore and Adela to see the Marabar
Caves.
 Ronny Heaslop arrives, and finding Adela "unaccompanied" with
Dr. Aziz and Professor Godbole, rudely breaks up the party.

28. Marabar Caves
 Fielding and Prof. Godbole fail to come at Marabar caves as they miss the
train.
 Aziz arranges a trip to the caves at great expense to himself.
 Aziz and the women explore the caves.
 In the first cave, Mrs. Moore is overcome with an echo and scared.
 Mrs. Moore declines to continue exploring.
 Adela and Aziz, accompanied by a guide, climb to the upper caves.

29. Adela's illusion
 Adela asks Aziz whether he has more than one wife.
 He is disturbed and runs into a new cave alone to cool himself.
 When he comes out, he finds the guide alone outside the caves.
 The guide says Adela has gone into a cave by herself.
 Aziz looks for her in vain.
 Deciding she is lost, he strikes the guide, who runs away.
 Aziz looks around and discovers Adela's field glasses lying
broken on the ground.
 Aziz then looks down the hill and sees Adela speaking to
another young Englishwoman, Miss Derek, who has arrived
with Fielding in a car.
 Aziz runs down the hill and greets Fielding, but Miss Derek
and Adela drive off without explanation. Fielding, Mrs. Moore,
and Aziz return to Chandrapore on the train.

30. Aziz's arrest
 At the train station, Aziz is arrested and charged with sexually assaulting
(trying to rape) Adela in a cave.
 Trial on Aziz- racial tensions between the British and the Indians.
 Adela says that Aziz followed her into the cave and tried to grab her, and that she
fended him off by swinging her field glasses at him.
 The only evidence the British have is the field glasses in the possession of Aziz.
 Despite this, the British colonists believe that Aziz is guilty.
 Fielding proclaims his belief in Aziz's innocence.
 Fielding is condemned as a blood-traitor by the British.
 But the Indians, who consider the assault allegation a fraud, welcome him.

31. Mrs. Moore mystery
 During the weeks before the trial, Mrs. Moore is apathetic and
irritable.
 Although she professes her belief in Aziz's innocence, she does
nothing to help him.
 Ronny, alarmed by his mother's assertion that Aziz is
innocent, arranges for her return by ship to England before
she can influence the trial.
 Mrs. Moore dies (or killed by her own son Ronny ?) during the
voyage. Her absence from India becomes a major issue at the
trial, where Aziz's legal defenders assert that her opinion
would have proven Aziz’s innocence.

32. Trial scene
 Adela becomes confused as to Aziz's guilt.
 At the trial, she is asked whether Aziz sexually assaulted her.
 Adela had, while in the cave, received a shock similar to Mrs.
Moore's.
 The echo had disconcerted her so much that she became
unhinged. At the time, Adela mistakenly interpreted her shock
as an assault by Aziz.
 She admits that she was mistaken, and the case is dismissed.
 Aziz is released. But he is angry with Ms. Adela as she almost
ruined his life with a fake charge.

33. The Result..
 Ronny Heaslop breaks off his engagement to Adela and
she stays at Fielding's house until her passage on a boat to
England is arranged.
 After explaining to Fielding that the echo was the cause of
the whole business, she departs India, never to return.
 Aziz is angry that Fielding befriended Adela after she
nearly ruined his life.
 Fielding convinces Aziz not to lodge a court suit of
defaming against Adela.
 The men's friendship suffers, and Fielding departs for
England. Aziz believes that he is leaving to marry Adela
for her money.
 Bitter at his friend's perceived betrayal, he vows never
again to befriend a white person. Aziz moves to the Hindu-
ruled state of Mau and begins a new life.

34. At Mau..(Ending)
 Two years later, Fielding returns to India.
 His wife is Stella, Mrs. Moore's daughter from a second
marriage.
 Aziz, now the Raja's chief physician, comes to respect and
love Fielding again.
 However, he does not give up his dream of a free and united
India.
 In the novel's last sentences, he explains that he and Fielding
cannot be friends until India is free of the British Raj.

35. Thank You…!