Importance of the character of Mrs. Moore in E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India".

Characters always play a very important role in all types of writing in literature. In the novel specifically characters have a huge role to perform. Now here we are going to discuss the importance of the character of Mrs. Moore in E. M. Forster's novel. And the person whose innovative character is going to be discussed, he himself wrote in his "Aspects of the Novel" that, characters in fiction are "often engaged in treason against the main scheme of the book." They are, in short, "full of the spirit of mutiny."

        In this novel Mrs. Moore is a simple, kindly old woman who is the product of English gentility, but has no proud or boastfulness in her to be an English woman. Here she is portrayed as a fool to Miss Adela. They two represent the two aspects of English life. But both of them have one aim i.e. to find "the real India".
   
        Mrs. Moore is not a flat character, rather she is changeable throughout the novel. Even after her death, her influence is clearly visible in other characters of the novel and in the plot of the novel.
In her we see a fusion of Christianity and Hinduism. To her, "God is love". He "has put us on earth to love our neighbours and to show it, and He is omnipresent, even in India, to see how we are succeeding."

      She is the one who first met Aziz in the mosque. She also helps him in the Trial Scene to prove himself to be innocent. Thus here she is represented as the symbol of reconciliation. She becomes an allegorical figure. According to Allen, "She is among other things obviously a Magna Carta figure, older than English and strife between them."