Social Reality in the Writings of E.M Forst

Exploring the Ecological Philosophy of E.M. Forster's A Room with a View

Abstract

In literature, the link between people and nature has been extensively studied. The primarytheme of British and American transcendentalism, which permeates E.M. Forster's work A Room with aView, is spirituality, which connects humans and environment (1908). Nature and its place in human lifeare central to this story, and Forster's attitude on nature and its role in human life is startling and pertinentnow when eco-awareness is one of humanity's main aims. It is said that Forster celebrates independenceand variety via his images of nature and the environment, which are examined in this article togetherwith the narrative framework and the characters. However, Forster introduces a unique ecologicalphilosophy through overt comparisons and parallelism of environmental fluctuations with the eventsthat take place in the lives of the main characters, highlighting the inseparability of humans from natureand vice versa, thus expressing both humility and rapture with regard to the created symbiosis, itsbeauty and inscrutability.