Analysis Of Orientalism In A Passage To India

Analysis Of Orientalism In A Passage To India

1. Marginalized Cultural Identities of the Indians Culture identity refers to an individual's consciousness of belonging to a particular culture. It involves learning about and accepting themselves with those who share the same cultural symbols. Due to colonialism, some people from the minority groups are denied a cultural identity by the system that entraps them. Therefore, they are made marginal, neglected and estranged. "The colonized are constrained to impersonate the image the colonizer offers them of themselves; they are commend to imitate the colonizer's version of their essential difference."



1.1 Unnamed Indians with no cultural identity According to Said, Orientalism is an academic discipline or corporate institution, but basically it is the way the colonizer thinks about, talks about and represents the colonized, based on a division of 2 parts (west and east) in general terms. In the foreword of Orientalism, Said points out that "the Orient is almost a European invention". He also points out that "as long as Orient is considered, India cannot be neglected". In A Passage to India, there are some nameless Indian natives who are represented only from the author's ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Here, the local residents are compared to mud by Forster. The metaphor has 2 meanings: on one hand, it means that they have no sense, no feeling and no souls at all. Forster is looking at the local Indians as if he were looking at non–creatures. He forgets that they are also human beings like him just belonging to a different race. This is Forster's first impression of Indians, and he is commenting casually about people of a race that is completely unfamiliar to him. Apparently, according to Forster, no sign of cultural identity can be found in the average Indian natives of

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