Divergent paths of homosexuality: Clive and Alec in E.M. Forster's Maurice

E. M. Forster’s Maurice is a paramount text in queer literary circles, though it is highly under analyzed and discussed. This thesis analyzes E. M. Forster's Maurice and takes the focus away from the main protagonist, Maurice, and instead focuses on an in-depth analysis of the two main love interests of the novel, Clive and Alec, and how they represent two paths of homosexuality, Clive representing social visibility and homosexual repression and Alec representing social invisibility and homosexual freedom, through a close reading of the text, with the help of theory from Foucault. It begins with an introduction to the text, followed by a more detailed textual history and a look at critical works previously done on the text, before diving into a section on Clive, then a section on Alec, and finally concluding with a discussion of the paths and their effect on modern homosexual media.