The Impact of Imperialism in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India: A Comparative Analysis

Abstract

The researcher aims to analyse the impact of Imperialism by comparing two novels: Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901) and E.M. Forster‟s A Passage to India (1924) In these two novels, the impact of Imperialism is mainly concerned with cultural aspects, economics, society and racism. It can be deduced from the relationship between literature and imperialism that literature is used as a means of promoting and spreading imperialism because it is an effective instrument for mind control. To this end, colonial discourses and imperialist ideas were integrated into literature by imperialist writers to make readers (colonised people) believe in the need for colonialism and imperialism to enlighten and civilise the country. This study presents fundamental concepts that have great significance and clarifies a great deal about how the imperialist system works and affects in the selected novels of Kipling and Forster.