young doctor

   How has this been done? Not, most certainly, by the mere plot, which is as ordinary as the scene. To the compact, second-rate little English community of Chandrapore come two strangers: Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore. Adela is expecting to marry Ronny Heaslop, the son. of Mrs. Moore by a first marriage. They refuse to accept the prevailing view that India and Indians are outside the range of human sympathy, and are full of a vague desire to ’see India’.
    They do meet some Indians, including a young doctor, Aziz, and they are encouraged by an English teacher, Cyril Fielding, who stands alone in his determination to treat Indians as equals. From their friendship with Aziz comes a party to visit the Marabar Caves, the one notable feature of the district.
    These caves have a sinister but never fully explained quality, which makes them, and the visit to them, the centre of the book. Above all, they have an echo: ‘Bourn’ is the sound as far as the human alphabet can express it, or ‘bou-oum’ or ‘ou-boum’ — utterly dull. Hope and politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce ‘bourn’. Even the striking of a match starts a little worm coiling, which is too small to complete a circle, but is eternally watchful. And if several people talk at once, an overlapping howling noise begins, echoes generate echoes, and the cave is stuffed with a snake composed of small snakes, which writhe independently.

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