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Maurice Study Guide & Notes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 49 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Maurice.
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Maurice by E.M. Forester is a tale of a young man struggling with his sexual orientation in a time when little was known or understood about homosexuality. Maurice feels as though he must hide his true character from everyone, even those closest to him, for fear that they will not understand or that he will be placed in prison. As Maurice grows older, he finds a small group of people who understand him, including a young man who pledges him his love. However, these others outgrow their feelings, but Maurice cannot. It is a struggle that still rings true today, causing modern readers to root for a man who is struggling with the basic crisis all people face, the discovery of who he really is.

Maurice is given a lecture on sex as a fourteen year old boy. As a result of this lecture Maurice begins to realize there is...
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This section contains 989 words
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Maurice from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
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