Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Women in 'A Passage to India'
- Indian Women and Purdah
- Purdah during the bridge party: “Indeed, all the ladies were
uncertain, cowering, recovering, giggling”
- Progressive Purdah: “ I believe in purdah, but […] all men are my
brothers, and as soon as one behaves as such, he may see my wife.”
- Purdah at the time 'A Passage to India' was written:
- Anglo-Indians
- "Why doesn't the fool go?" (Page 11)
- "You're superior to them anyway, don't forget
that" (page 33)
- "I give any Englishman two years" "And any
Englishwomen six months" (page6)
- Adela and Mrs Moore; Newcomers in India
- Polite and respectful when interacting with the Indians as
opposed to the other English who are "Haughty and Venal"
- Adela comes independently to India but falls into the
stereotype of a vulnerable English women who needs
tp be protected from the lusting Indians
- Adela is intellectual whilst Mrs Moore is more
emotional, they are antithesis to each other