![]() ![]() When Margaret finds that ‘the incident displeased her’ because ‘no tenderness had ensued’, she resolves to help Henry bridge the desired gap ( HE, 169).Īlthough the word ‘passion’ is used twenty-three times in Howards End, it is not defined. ![]() Our first encounter with ‘prose’ and ‘passion’ comes shortly after Margaret Schlegel, a liberal intellectual, receives her first kiss from her chalk and cheese fiancé, Henry Wilcox, a conservative businessman. This essay investigates how and why this might be the case in regards to resolving the tension between ‘prose’ and ‘passion’ in five major characters from Howards End and A Room with A View (both novels themselves connected by reference to the English art critic and author, John Ruskin). However I suggest that Forster does not always succeed (or perhaps did not wish to succeed) in bridging these tensions. ![]() Indeed the importance of bridging tensions across racial, class, and geopolitical barriers is a recurring theme in Forster’s work. According to Colmer (92), the phrase ‘only connect’, the epigraph to Howards End, immediately establishes the master theme as one of achieving harmony. ![]()
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