A Passage To India is a classic example of how different cultures, when forced to mix, misunderstand each other, and the consequences that arise from these misunderstandings. All of Forster's greatest works deal with humans' inability to communicate satisfactorily and their inability to eliminate prejudices to establish possible relationships. A passage to India is no exception. (Riley, Moore 107) To understand Forster's motivations, we must establish that he is a humanist writer. Harry T. Moore says: “Of all the imaginative works in English of this century, that of Forster stands highest among those which may justly be called humanistic. (Riley, Moore 107) His main belief is that human beings fail to connect because humanistic virtues, tolerance, good humor, and sympathy are ineffective in this world of religious and racial persecution. However, he also believes that personal relationships can be successful, provided they are not publicly exposed, because values ​​and noble impulses exist in human nature. “Life is not a failure but a tragedy, mainly because it is difficult to translate private decencies into public decencies.” (Riley, McDowell 108) Forster is aware of the evil that exists in human nature. Forster believes that men do not know enough to control this evil, and he takes on the humanist responsibility of ensuring internal and external order using reason. To maintain this order, Forster relied on the individual's conscience and sense of identification with others as equal components of the human race. It also gives the individual social, political and metaphysical value and favors the individual when in conflict with society. (Riley, McDowell 108) This is the middle of paper......ia University Press, 1979. Riley, Carolyn, ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism. 4. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1975. Bradbury, Malcolm, "EM Forster as Victorian And Modern: 'Howard's End' and 'A Passage To India'," Possibilities: Essays on the State of the Novel (1973 by Malcolm Bradbury ; reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press), Oxford University Press, 1973. Riley, Carolyn, ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism. 3. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1975. Johnstone, JK, "EM Forster (1879-1970)"" The Politics of Twentieth Century Novelists, edited by George A. Panichas (reprinted by permission of Hawthorn Books; 1971 by the 'University of Maryland ;) Hawthorn, 1971. Riley, Carolyn, ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism 1. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1973. McDowell, E. M. Forster, Twayne., 1969.