Howard's End

Connecting Society         As a reader opens up the fabrication Howards End, the fist words he sees are slewed across the rapscallion with little apparent meaning: Only connect¦ Yet, by and by another two hundred pages and the events occurring as two truly dissimilar families collide, this phrase has evolved into a aphorism fully understandable and infused with meaning.

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both go away be exalted, and homo love will be seen at its height, live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die (174).

The idea of connection is paramount in crusade the events in Howards End. The author, E.M. Forster, provides several motifs in which he compares two different aspects and infers that a connection needs to be made amid each feature of that motif. Forster uses some of the more prominent motifs; England contrasted with Germany, the suburban environment contrasted with a rural environment, and the lower classes contrasted with the higher classes to gild and explain his theme; using Margaret as a vessel to exemplify why and how only an individual that has these ideas already match can connect them.

        In the terms of plutocracy and intelligentsia, Forster placed (respectively) England and Germany at opposite ends of the spectrum; only Margarets blend of the two cultures is able to bow out them to repayher in a stable balance. Forster paints a characterisation of England as a country limited by its softness to enjoy art and caught up in its drive for improvement. England ceased to be a stable agrarian nation and had become an expanding industrial and commercial empire. Great cities had been built, and great fortunes made; the rich had with child(p) more powerful and the poor more wretched. Who owned...

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