The Ecocritical Reading Of E. M. Forster-the Connection Of Man And Nature

E. M. Forster enjoys enormous fame in England in the first half of20thcentury.Although during his writing career only six novels are published, he, along withLawrence, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf, is generally recognized as one of themost important writers in England in the20thcentury. This thesis aims to analyze histhree novels, A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India, from theperspective of Ecocriticism to explore Forster’s writing philosophy of connection.The main content is divided into four parts. The first part is the analysis of man ofnature to reflect Forster’s firm belief in the power of nature and the development ofForster’s writing philosophy of connection in his tough and long journey to achieveecological holism.The second part explores the important locations in these three novels, that is, Italy,Howards End and Marabar Caves. These locations share common features that theyare the perfect places where the literature, music and paintings coexist with river,flowers and rain, endowing human beings with power to obtain their integrity.The third part focuses on those men of industry, uncovering the disaster resultedfrom the separation of human beings and nature. Forster is insightful enough to findthat human beings invent machinery and industrialization to pursue happiness but inthe end human beings become the slave of his machines and the industrialized city istransformed into a prison to imprison human beings.The last part analyzes the results and the reasons for various connections. All ofthese four parts involve an evident contrast with the locations changing from free Italyto chaotic India, the characters from man of nature to man of industry, and the resultsof connections from success to failure. The contrast reflects the importance of theconnection of man and nature. Only when the connection of man and nature ismaterialized will human beings be able to embrace each other.