Indian Ink and A Room with a View are both set in different eras. A Room with a View is set in the Edwardian era when, like the book's central character, people were beginning to question Victorian attitudes about emotion and sexuality and old ideas about class and religion. It was published in 1908 and was Forster's third novel. Forster's characters, like Forster himself, lived during the height of the British Empire. The novel tells the story of a young woman, Lucy Honeychurch, whose love for a British socialist and her experiences in Florence lead her to question the values ​​that society has imposed on her. It is particularly interesting that the novel takes place in Florence, which was the center of the Renaissance. The word renaissance means rebirth and this could symbolize the rebirth of Lucy's ideas and values. Indian Ink is written as a play and takes place in the 1930s and 1980s. In the 1930s, the scene takes place in India, which belongs to the British Empire. At this time, a young poet named Flora Crewe, visiting, finds herself balancing between two very different societies. The 1980s section of the play is set in England where sixty years after the poet's death, his sister and the son of the artist with whom Flora was associated reunite. Although it is written as a play, it reads as if it were written as a novel as it is very descriptive, even describing the color of Flora's "cornflower blue dress". Lucy, the central character of A Room with a View, is the child of the nouveau riche. Like Flora, she is young, charming and friendly. At the beginning of the novel, Lucy is relatively uninformed, and gradually, throughout the book, she learns more not only about Italy, but also about herself. At the end of the novel, like Flora, Lucy is a strong and...... middle of paper......that in A Room with a View, it is perhaps also to show the difference and the similarities between the two cultures. The two writers use humor differently. Forster gently makes fun of his characters, he is not harsh and this allows the reader to develop affection for them. Stoppard's characters however are themselves humorous in the things they say, this also allows for a deeper understanding of the characters but in a different way than Forster. The central characters of Indian Ink and A Room with a View present the ideas of Stoppard and Forster through their growing experiences and changing ideas in the foreign countries they visit.BibliographyBooksIndian Ink - Tom StoppardA Room with a View - EM ForsterThe Oxford Encyclopedic English DictionaryVideoHat and DustA Room with a ViewInternetwww.amazon.comwww.tstoppardbib.com