its a great novel

1. Welcome…

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

25. Plot summary
Arrival-
A young British schoolmistress, Adela Quested, and her elderly friend, Mrs. Moore,
visit the fictional city of Chandrapore, British India. Adela is to decide if she wants to
marry Mrs. Moore's son, Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate.
Meanwhile, Dr. Aziz, a young Indian Muslim physician, is dining with two of his
Indian friends and conversing about whether it is possible to be a friend of an
Englishman. During the meal, a summons arrives from Major Callendar, Aziz's
unpleasant superior at the hospital. Aziz hastens to Callendar's bungalow as ordered
but is delayed by a flat tyre and difficulty in finding a tonga and the major has already
left in a huff.
Disconsolate, Aziz walks down the road toward the railway station. When he sees his
favourite mosque, he enters on impulse. He sees a strange Englishwoman there and
yells at her not to profane this sacred place. The woman, Mrs. Moore, has respect for
native customs. This disarms Aziz, and the two chat and part as friends.
Mrs. Moore returns to the British club down the road and relates her experience at the
mosque. Ronny Heaslop, her son, initially thinks she is talking about an Englishman
and becomes indignant when he learns the facts. Adela, however, is intrigued.

26. Bridge Party
Because the newcomers had expressed a desire to see Indians, Mr. Turton, the city
tax collector, invites numerous Indian gentlemen to a party at his house. The party
turns out to be an awkward business, thanks to the Indians' timidity and the
Britons' bigotry, but 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 extends his invitation to 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, a distant cave complex. Ronny Heaslop arrives, and
finding Adela "unaccompanied" with Dr. Aziz and Professor Godbole, rudely
breaks up the party.
Aziz mistakenly believes that the women are offended that he has not followed
through on his promise and arranges an outing to the caves at great expense to
himself. Fielding and Godbole are supposed to accompany the expedition, but
they miss the train.

28. Marabar Caves
Aziz and the women explore the caves. In the first
cave, Mrs. Moore is overcome with claustrophobia.
But worse than the claustrophobia is the echo.
Disturbed by the sound, Mrs. Moore declines to
continue exploring. Adela and Aziz, accompanied by
a guide, climb to the upper caves.

29. Adela's illusion
As Aziz helps Adela up the hill, she asks whether he has more
than one wife. Disconcerted by the bluntness of the remark, he
ducks into a cave to compose 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. He
puts them in his pocket.
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. Adela has
injured herself while descending from the caves.

30. Aziz's arrest
At the train station, Aziz is arrested and charged with sexually assaulting Adela in a cave.
The run-up to his trial releases the 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. They are stunned when Fielding proclaims his belief in Aziz's innocence. Fielding is
ostracised and condemned as a blood-traitor. But the Indians, who consider the assault
allegation a fraud, welcome him.

31. 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 testify at the trial. Mrs. Moore dies during the voyage.
Her absence from India becomes a major issue at the trial, where
Aziz's legal defenders assert that her testimony would have proven
the accused's innocence.
Mrs. Moore becomes more concerned with her own end of life issues
as she feels her health failing. Her relationship with her son allows
her to be distracted and less sympathetic to Aziz's situation.

32. Trial scene
Adela becomes confused as to Aziz's guilt. At the trial, she is asked
whether Aziz sexually assaulted her. She has a vision of the cave,
and it turns out that 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.
(In the 1913 draft of the novel, E. M. Forster had Aziz guilty of the
assault and found guilty in the court; he changed this in the 1924
draft to create a more ambiguous ending.)

33. Aftermath
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.
Although he is vindicated, Aziz is angry that Fielding befriended
Adela after she nearly ruined his life. Believing it to be the
gentlemanly thing to do, Fielding convinces Aziz not to seek
monetary redress from her. 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…!