The Journey of Protagonist in the Longest Journey

The Longest Journey is E. M. Forster’s second novel published in 1907. The novel in it’s a bildungsroman scope traces the development of the protagonist, Rickie Elliot, who has just entered Cambridge. The novel is more about what it is like to go to Cambridge and about the inner conflicts of an emerging artist. Forster has also made this novel thematically rich and relevant by cross-weaving the themes of morality, journey, people and money. Further, the novel resonates with a series of man-woman relationships, theme of heredity, Cambridge motif and the ambiguities of human relations. It is also possible to read The Longest Journey as a record of Forster’s views on reality, art, man-woman relationship and sexuality