What is Forster's primary critique of the British in India? What does he appear to think of the Empire in general?
What does Stephen's father call him as a child in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
Paul's close relationship with his mother has provoked many Freudian and Oedipal readings of this novel. Is this type of reading valid? If not, what do you make of the relationship between Paul and his mother, which seems to be the one constant force throughout the novel?