This week we read Forrester's A Passage to India, which unravelled the true nature of the relationship between India and the British. The problem was that no one could really trust anyone because everyone had a motive. It really got me thinking about the issue of trust.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated, “ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ” Maybe if this had happened in the novel there would not have been so many problems. I understand why the natives of India could not trust the British because they had taken their land from them. Maybe they would have maintained a better relationship if the British had actually bothered to treat the natives like people instead of slaves.
I think Emerson had it right. If the British had treated the natives with respect, the whole relationship could have been better.
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