![]() However, after some time to think, Maurice realizes that he loves Clive and they make up, leading to a happy relationship for the next two years. Clive eventually confesses his love to Maurice, hoping that Maurice will understand thanks to reading Plato. Many years later, Maurice is a Cambridge student, still average, until he happens to meet Clive Durham, who becomes his best friend. The book begins with an awkward "all you need to know about sex" talk delivered by a teacher to him as a young boy, setting the tone of heteronormativity and the psychological constraints that Maurice will spend most of the book trying to escape. This is a big problem, because back then homosexuality was punished as a crime and condemned by society. Forster's Maurice is a novel about the eponymous character, who is perhaps the most middle-of-the-road, ordinary, unexceptional, run of the mill, average middle-class Englishman you can imagine, except that he's attracted to men. ![]() Set in and written during The Edwardian Era, but not published until after the author's death in The '70s, E. characters Maurice at right Alec at left. Sexuality clearly not being the only issue here. ![]()
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