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- Many critics have contended that Forster portrays Aziz and many of the other Indian characters unflatteringly.
Aug 14, 2024 · Characters Discussed. PDF Cite Share. Dr. Aziz (ah- ZEEZ), an amiable, sensitive, and intelligent young Moslem doctor in Chandrapore, India. Ignored and snubbed by the English colony, he...
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Meanwhile, Dr. Aziz, a young Indian Muslim physician, is called from dining with friends by Major Callendar, Aziz's superior at the hospital, but is delayed. Disconsolate at finding him gone, Aziz walks back and enters his favourite mosque on impulse.
- E. M. Forster
- 1924
- Dr. Aziz. An intelligent, emotional Indian doctor in Chandrapore. Aziz attempts to make friends with Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Cyril Fielding. Later, Adela falsely accuses Aziz of attempted rape after an expedition to the Marabar Caves, but the charges are dropped after Adela’s testimony at the trial.
- Cyril Fielding. The principal of the government college near Chandrapore. Fielding is an independent man who believes in educating the Indians to be individuals—a much more sympathetic attitude toward the native population than that held by most English in India.
- Miss Adela Quested. A young, intelligent, inquisitive, but somewhat repressed Englishwoman. Adela travels to India with Mrs. Moore in order to decide whether or not to marry Mrs. Moore’s son Ronny.
- Mrs. Moore. An elderly Englishwoman who voyages to India with Adela Quested. Mrs. Moore wishes to see the country and hopes that Adela will marry her son Ronny.
Despite his contradictions, Aziz is a genuinely affectionate character, and his affection is often based on intuited connections, as with Mrs. Moore and Fielding. Though Forster holds up Aziz’s capacity for imaginative sympathy as a good trait, we see that this imaginativeness can also betray Aziz.
Dr. Aziz is the hero of the novel A Passage To India as all the important events in the novel revolve around him. E.M. Forster has been praised by almost all the critics for the creation of a rounded character that is living and human.
Impulsive, talkative, gregarious, spontaneously affectionate, Aziz is the Energizer Bunny of the story, rushing into conversations and situations without really thinking too hard about what he's saying or doing.
A subaltern who plays polo with Aziz early in the novel, and then drunkenly insults Fielding and the Indians after Adela ’s attack. Dr. Panna Lal A low-born Hindu doctor, whom Aziz scorns.
