Women in 'A Passage to India'

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Mind map: Women in 'A Passage to India'
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Women in 'A Passage to India'
  1. Indian Women and Purdah
    1. Purdah during the bridge party: “Indeed, all the ladies were uncertain, cowering, recovering, giggling”
      1. 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.”
        1. Purdah at the time 'A Passage to India' was written:
        2. Anglo-Indians
          1. "Why doesn't the fool go?" (Page 11)
            1. "You're superior to them anyway, don't forget that" (page 33)
              1. "I give any Englishman two years" "And any Englishwomen six months" (page6)
              2. Adela and Mrs Moore; Newcomers in India
                1. Polite and respectful when interacting with the Indians as opposed to the other English who are "Haughty and Venal"
                  1. Adela comes independently to India but falls into the stereotype of a vulnerable English women who needs tp be protected from the lusting Indians
                    1. Adela is intellectual whilst Mrs Moore is more emotional, they are antithesis to each other

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