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English / Re: Assignment for 11th Batch, Department of English
« on: April 29, 2010, 12:56:48 AM »
"The first meeting of Mrs. Moore and Dr. Aziz"
In a peaceful moonlight night Aziz meets and talks with Mrs. Moore in the Mosque. Aziz who is still shouldering under recent insults from the British, speaks to her sharply but she replies in a friendly manner. He shouts to her to stop and not to move any furthers without taking off her shoes.But Mrs. Moore she has done so already. She informs him that she has newly arrived to know India as well as to see her son who is the city Magistrate of Chandrapore. In the darkness of the Mosque when he first hears the voice of Mrs. Moore, he is deceived into thinking that she is young, and when he finds that she is old, he receives a shock. Then they mention their respective families, and Aziz finding her sympathetic complains in strong words about the humiliations inflicted upon him that evening by his superior, Major Callender and his equally callous wife. Mrs. Moore is surprised and insists that she does not understand people rather no she likes or dislikes a person.That's why Aziz calls her an Oriental. The conflict of the Oriental mind and Western mind is an important one in this novel because it is the basis of much of the misunderstanding Mrs. Moore has the ability to cross lines. However, the relationship thus established between the Mohammedan and the English woman leads to certain momentous consequences afterwords.
In a peaceful moonlight night Aziz meets and talks with Mrs. Moore in the Mosque. Aziz who is still shouldering under recent insults from the British, speaks to her sharply but she replies in a friendly manner. He shouts to her to stop and not to move any furthers without taking off her shoes.But Mrs. Moore she has done so already. She informs him that she has newly arrived to know India as well as to see her son who is the city Magistrate of Chandrapore. In the darkness of the Mosque when he first hears the voice of Mrs. Moore, he is deceived into thinking that she is young, and when he finds that she is old, he receives a shock. Then they mention their respective families, and Aziz finding her sympathetic complains in strong words about the humiliations inflicted upon him that evening by his superior, Major Callender and his equally callous wife. Mrs. Moore is surprised and insists that she does not understand people rather no she likes or dislikes a person.That's why Aziz calls her an Oriental. The conflict of the Oriental mind and Western mind is an important one in this novel because it is the basis of much of the misunderstanding Mrs. Moore has the ability to cross lines. However, the relationship thus established between the Mohammedan and the English woman leads to certain momentous consequences afterwords.