Symbolism as a Modernist Featurein a Passage to India

A passage to India by E.M. Forster is a modern novel written in 1924. It describes the modern movement in that period, so we could say that each movement of the human beings has its own characterizations which recognize it from other periods. Forester’s novel has its own features which recognize it from other ages in English literature. A Passage to India is one of the novels affected by Modernism which is the movement of that period. It influences the life style and literature. The main idea of the research is to show the reflection of modernist feature in a passage to India. The reflection of these features has shown through reading and analyzing the novel. It also sheds the light on symbolism, metaphor and personification as literary devices used by the novelist. It also focuses on how E.M Forster uses the modernist features in his novel. It also proves that Forster as a modernist novelist.