7/2/2023 0 Comments Maurice by E.M. Forster![]() ![]() ![]() Forster wrote that although the happy end was not plausible, he had not wanted to let the novel end disastrous. Later Maurice thinks about overcoming his sexual desires but fails falling in love with Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate. His first homosexual relation to Clive Durham at Cambridge breaks up when Clive decides to marry. Successively he experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. That makes it easier for him to disguise as 'normal' (i.e. The reader only learns about his early childhood, that he and his sisters Ada and Kitty were brought up by their widowed mother. ![]() Forster omits the childhood of - and by that the influences of society on - Maurice Hall. ![]() With the plot starting just before the protagonist's 15 th birthday the reader follows Maurice's life through public school, Cambridge and his deceased father's stock broking firm, Hill and Hall. Maurice, a novel by E. M. Forster, written during 1913/14, but published posthumously in 1971, is the story of a young middle class man searching for an own identity within a society which denies his desire for love to a person of the same sex. ![]()
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