Maurice
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As Maurice Hall makes his way through a traditional English education, he projects an outer confidence that masks troubling questions about his own identity. Frustrated and unfulfilled, a product of the bourgeoisie he will grow to despise, he has difficulty acknowledging his nascent attraction to men.
At Cambridge he meets Clive, who opens his eyes to a less conventional view of the nature of love. Yet when Maurice is confronted by the societal pressures of life beyond university, self-doubt and heartbreak threaten his quest for happiness.
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Timeless
Forster, in his end notes, says that his novel “Maurice” is dated - mostly because it contains anachronisms from another era , including laws against homosexuality. While such laws have largely been erased in many countries, the revulsion for same sex love has not. In that sense, Forster’s “Maurice” is timeless. It speaks to men who even today suffer anguish and hatred for who they innately are. Forster both knows and feels the cry of loneliness and heartache homosexuals experience when they deeply know they will never be considered “normal”. But normal they are and ever shall be. They possess the common human impulse to love and be loved. Does it matter who one loves? No. As the Bible eloquently states, “God is love.” Forster has thus touched on the divine humanity in us all - gay and straight alike. We yearn for the most joyous and purest emotion possible - to not only love oneself, but to love another deeply and completely. If a man loves another man, so what? He has simply spoken the words of God - and what Forster echoes in “Maurice.” “I love you”. Blessed be us all.