the shift between seasons
A slight fever, perhaps. Change of season.A Passage to India · 1984 — 第 6 / 19 章 · 4'20" · B2
Fielding Visits Sick Aziz, Explained：condescend to
A routine sick visit turns into a colonial argument. Mahmoud Ali asks Fielding point-blank, "How is England justified in holding India?", and the Englishman's honest answer — he needs a job, he got in first — offends as much as it disarms.
あらすじ
Fielding visits Aziz at his home while Aziz is ill, and finds him surrounded by friends: Hamidullah, Mahmoud Ali, and Dr. Lal, whom Major Callendar has sent to check whether Aziz is malingering. The visit turns political, then intimate, as Aziz privately shows Fielding a photograph of his dead wife and confesses he loved her.
注目の表現
condescend toshammingjustified inchuck out
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このシーンの表現
condescend to
lower oneself to do something
Hamidullah thanks Fielding for condescending to visit their friend, flattery with an edge.
He condescended to join us for lunch.
このシーンの他の表現
- shamming
pretending to be ill
- justified in
having a good reason for
- chuck out
force someone to leave
- celebrated hospitality
ironic praise of poor hosting
- appreciate it
be grateful for it
このシーンのメモ一覧
53 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ
lower oneself to do something
Hamidullah thanks Fielding for condescending to visit their friend, flattery with an edge.
- And how's the patient? - It is very good of Mr Fielding to condescend to visit our friend. We're deeply touched.Aren't you reduces and blends together.
Well, are you ill or aren't you?pretending to be ill
Aziz assumes the major told Fielding he is shamming, bitter about being distrusted.
No doubt Major Callendar told you I'm shamming.faking it — disapproving British slang; say pretend in formal speech
No doubt Major Callendar told you I'm shamming.having a good reason for
Hamidullah turns the visit into a challenge: how is England justified in holding India?
But how is England justified in holding India?act before others
I got in first.very pleased to
And I'm delighted to be here. That's my answer and that's my only excuse.force someone to leave
- And those who are not delighted? - Chuck 'em out.throw them out — very casual; avoid in formal settings
- And those who are not delighted? - Chuck 'em out.ironic praise of poor hosting
Aziz looks at his shabby room and calls it the celebrated hospitality of the East.
Here you see the celebrated hospitality of the East.relative clause: The where-clause describes his home and its irony.
Here is my home, where you come to be insulted by my friends.because of
I can rest all day thanks to Dr Lal, Major Callendar's spy.wish clause: The wish clause uses weren't to express regret about now.
I wish you weren't under him. But you are, and that's that.for a short while
There we are. Try sleeping for a bit.be shown to someone
You are the first Englishman she has ever come before.put something back
Now put her away.be grateful for it
Fielding says he does not know why he deserves the honour but truly appreciates it.
I don't know why you pay me this great compliment, but I do appreciate it.Not a runs together as no-ta.
It is nothing. She was not a highly educated woman, or even beautiful.would have done
Now put her away. You would have seen her anyhow.「Fielding Visits Sick Aziz」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene stages the impossible courtesy the film keeps returning to. The Indian friends perform exaggerated respect — Fielding 'condescends' to visit — while Mahmoud Ali attacks the Englishman directly: "How is England justified in holding India?" Fielding refuses both flattery and evasion. He admits he is only here for a job and that 'I got in first,' which is exactly the inequality the question is about, and it disarms the room because it is honest. Later the politics falls away: Aziz shows Fielding his wife's picture and says, "You are the first Englishman she has ever come before." The intimacy is genuine, and it is built on the same unequal ground — a small, private gift offered to a man who arrives carrying all of England behind him.
Theme
PowerThe room's nationalism exposes who rules whom: even a friendly visit is shadowed by Callendar's spies and England's unearned authority.
FriendshipAziz shares his wife's photograph with Fielding, a private act of trust offered across the colonial divide.
このチャプターで学べること
- Justified in turns a question into a moral challenge.
- Thanks to credits someone for a result.
- The photo scene is the trust inside the argument.
- Celebrated can be used to praise something ironically.
発音のポイント
- aren't you — Aren't you reduces and blends together.
- not a — Not a runs together as no-ta.
And he does not need three chairs. He's not three Englishmen!Mahmoud Ali's jab at the English habit of seating one man in several chairs: a joke that turns furniture into a measure of colonial self-importance.
But how is England justified in holding India?The scene's central political challenge, put straight to Fielding: by what right does Britain rule India at all?
And I'm delighted to be here. That's my answer and that's my only excuse.Fielding's honest, uncomfortable reply: he has no grand justification for empire, only his own wish to be here and his need for work.
I wish you weren't under him. But you are, and that's that.Fielding's blunt sympathy for Aziz, who serves under the distrustful Major Callendar: no remedy, just the plain fact of their positions.
It is nothing. She was not a highly educated woman, or even beautiful.Aziz's modest introduction to his dead wife's photograph — he lowers her qualities only to insist, simply, that he loved her.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Dr. Lal visit Aziz?
Major Callendar sent him to check whether Aziz is really ill or only pretending, which is why Aziz calls him 'Major Callendar's spy.' The visit shows how little the English trust their Indian doctor.
What does Fielding mean by 'I got in first'?
He is admitting there is no noble justification for British rule: the English simply arrived and took the jobs before qualified Indians could. It is his honest answer to whether England belongs in India.
Why does Mahmoud Ali attack Fielding about India?
Ali is a nationalist who cannot resist challenging the Englishman in the room. His question is aimed at the empire, not at Fielding personally, which is why he first says 'nothing personal.'
Why does Aziz show Fielding his wife's photograph?
It is a rare act of trust: Aziz's wife is kept in purdah, and Fielding is the first Englishman she has ever 'come before.' Showing the picture is Aziz's way of honoring the friendship.
Is Fielding a friend to the Indians?
He is honest and unsentimental with them, and he dislikes the colonial system, yet he also benefits from it. The scene keeps him somewhere between sympathy and privilege.
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第 9 章go over the topFielding Defends Aziz After the Charge
第 10 章of no consequenceFielding Picks a Defence Lawyer
第 11 章await the verdictFielding Resigns from the Club
第 12 章have anything to do withMrs. Moore Says Goodbye to Ronny
第 13 章make it my businessMcBryde Accuses Aziz at Trial
第 14 章carried him awayDas Rules Mrs Moore Does Not Exist
第 15 章cast your mind backAdela Wavers on the Witness Stand
第 16 章withdraw the accusationAdela Withdraws the Accusation
第 17 章have a hunchAdela's Echo Is Gone
第 18 章extend an open invitationGodbole Says Goodbye to Fielding
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