Did Aziz attempt to rape Adela? Or was Adela instead overcome by the power and “otherness” of the caves and imagine an assault? Aziz’s trial in the British Raj courtroom. Aziz has “insulted” her.įor the rest of the novel, we follow Dr. Moore’s potential daughter-in-law, Adela Quested, feels ill and claims that Dr. Moore go on an outing to explore the nearby Marabar Caves, Mrs. Aziz, an Indian Muslim doctor in the town of Chandrapore.Īt first it seems that a bridge can be built between cultures, between the colonizer and the colonized, but when Dr. Moore is sensitive to the cultures and religions of others, and when she visits and enters a Muslim mosque reverently, she forms an unlikely but heartfelt friendship with Dr. Moore, a refined British lady who has come to visit India, still a British colony. The novel hinges on an accusation of rape. But in my way, limited by life experience though I was, I did appreciate them. I think back to those novels now and can’t imagine how a 17-year-old could really have been equipped – intellectually or emotionally – to appreciate them. He selected four challenging novels he thought I was up to understanding and studying. Alwood, agreed to do an independent study with me. When I was a senior in high school, my favorite English teacher, Mr.
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