Friendship is a central theme of the novel. Forster uses it to highlight the problems
caused by society and in particular, society in a colonised country. The three major friendships
of the novel all involve the main Indian character, Aziz. He attempts to forge connections with
the English trio of Mrs Moore, Adela, and Fielding. In each case, even if the friendship begins
promisingly, it is soon beset by difficulties which are never wholly surmounted.
To look first at Aziz and Fielding, they seem to get on very well indeed for a time,
but sadly their mutual friendship and respect is damaged by Azizs trial. Aziz comes to harbour a
general hatred of the English as a result, or at least he tries to, and to this end readily
believes the worst of even Fielding.
Even though the two men are reconciled
by the end, they never quite regain the same esteem for each other as before. Aziz now really
wants to have nothing to do with the English, while Fielding too has...
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