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THE ANGRY YOUNG MAN AND THE HUMANIST LIBERAL: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GEORGE ORWELL AND E. M. FORSTER ON THEIR REPRESENTATION IN BURMESE DAYS AND A PASSAGE TO INDIA Burmese Days by George Orwell and E. M. ... Despite the similarities, the novels reveal different representations of the two authors in terms of their perspectives toward British imperialism: George Orwell, an angry young man, and E. M. Forster, a humanist liberal. ... George Orwell had ¡°family connections with the country over three generations¡±, and he himself once served as an empire-builder in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. Besides, Orwell learned the Burmese language, which enabled him to analyze the Anglo-Burmese relations more acutely. ... Orwell pictured much about the disgusting side of the colonized, because he was angry. Before he came to Burma, Orwell had been sentimental about the beautiful Burma in literature; but he was shocked by the unexpected reality in the country when he did experience it, and this disillusion led to his anger and abomination toward Burma. ... For example, Aziz is portrayed objectively as a man with his own ideas and thoughts that is compatible with his background. ... So, the factor that sets Orwell apart from Forster is the different attitudes they assume when observing the colonies. Orwell had endeavored communication and integration among the ¡°simple and charming Burmese people in the beautiful land of Burma¡±. However, Orwell¡¯s stay in Burma was in the period (1919 ¨C 1930) when Burmese and English were bitter enemies; inevitably, his experience disillusioned the dream. ... e. ... But Orwell and Forster challenge that romanticized conception. ... As Orwell portrays in Burmese Days, the racial prejudice prevails among the English community, dividing the white from the natives like a watershed. ... Despite the similar resentment in the British Imperialism in the colonies, Orwell and Forster have different perspectives in their mind. ... We can identify in Flory the wrath and bitterness of Orwell, and find in Fielding the liberal worldview of Forster. ... Although he does not loathe the empire as Flory does, he dismisses the racial superiority thinking, which is highly upheld by the English officials at the station, and sticks to his liberal ways. It is the liberal mind that enables Fielding to approach Indian culture without prejudice. ... ¡± (A Passage to India, P80-81) The two protagonists¡¯ friendship with the natives illustrates the similar attitudes that Orwell and Forster adopt toward the locals. ... While Fielding, setting out from the stance and thinking of a liberal, gets along well with Indians, and is particularly on good terms with Aziz. However, Orwell is so depressed with anger on the Empire that he depicts the friendship between Flory and Veriswami with bitterness. ... Different from Orwell¡¯s depression, Forster is more hopeful. ... However, in accordance with his liberal principles, Forster¡¯s emphasis is firmly placed on the realms of the personal and the individual, rather than the social and the political. ... In contrast, Flory, in his meeting with Veriswami, always raises topics about the British imperialism in Burma, reflecting Orwell¡¯s condemnation. Orwell¡¯s anger drives him to vehemently lament the Empire. ... Compared with Orwell, Forster¡¯s liberalism enables him to gain a deep and critical insight into the Anglo-Indian relations in A Passage to India. ... Burmese Days vividly documents the personal experience of Orwell, so naturally through the angle of Flory he expresses much bitterness of an angry young man when describing the real situation of the Empire in Burma, such as: ¡°What was at the center of all his thoughts now, and what poisoned everything, was the ever bitterer hatred of the atmosphere of imperialism in which he lived. |
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