《莫瑞斯》中“不正常人”对权力话语接受与反抗.pdf

India (1924), for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Maurice (1971) was published posthumously. 1.2 Introduction to Maurice Maurice , a novel by E. M. Forster, is a tale of homosexual love in the early 20th century England. Following the development of Maurice Hall from his schooldays, via university to society, it tells a story of a young middle class man searching for his own identity within a society hostile to homosexuality. Depicted as an ordinary man, Maurice keeps in line with the “normal” (i.e. heterosexual) way of life at first. His real sexual orientation is kept in muddle. His acquaintance with Clive Durham at Cambridge leads to his emotional and sexual awakening. However, this first homosexual romance meets a sad ending because of Clive’s decision to marry a girl of his class. Desperate of love and life, Maurice turns to medicine for help with the hope of becoming “normal”, but fails. However, Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper on Clives country estate saves him out of the dreadful situation. Lifting shackles of social conventions, they flee to the green wood to live a free life ever after. Finished in 1914 and revised in 1959-1960, the novel is remarkable for its time in describing same-sex love in a non-condemnatory way. Considering the public and legal attitudes to homosexuality at that time, Forster was quite aware that his insistence on a happy ending would make the book too controversial. Most probably it would be banned because of the rigid censorship. A note found on the manuscript reflected his worry about the response from the critics and society, which read Publishable, but worth it?” Finally, he resisted publication. Although shown to selected friends, the novel was only published in 1971 after Forsters death. However, by the time he di