'Hinduism is the solution'
'The Marabar has been wiped out' Discuss
The Marabar caves catalyse much of the unrest in the middle section of the novel. The geological structures out-date everything else in Chandrapore and confuse both the British and the Indians through their embodiment of everything juxtaposed with nothingness. The all reducing echo of the caves acts to instigate the realisation of darker shades of oneself. In the case of Mrs Moore, this is the repressed ambivalence towards God, which needs only a brief ignition to flare up and become all encompassing. For Adela, the alien quality of the caves force the painful realisation of there being no love between her and Ronny, even more significantly: that there is no love between Adela and anyone/thing/
In this sense, the caves both destroy meaning, in reducing all utterances to the same sound, and expose or narrate the unspeakable, the aspects of the universe that the caves' visitors have not yet considered.......
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