A Deconstructive Approach To "connections" Reflected In Howards End

E. M. Forster is widely known as the author of the famous epigraph “onlyconnect...” that is explicitly put forward in his Howards End. He persistently attachesgreat importance to personal connection, the preachment of which reveals hisintention to heal the disconnection-ridden world represented by the typical Englishsociety jeopardized by the expansive power of industrialization and urbanization. Thisresearch finds that the “connections” that those main characters struggle for and seemto have achieved eventually prove inherently defective. The “connections” areactually unstable entanglements of ruptures and links constantly combating andsupporting each other, marked by perpetual undecidability. Connection, an unstableentity as is discussed in deconstruction, is only an illusion, void of an inner unifiedmeaning, unsteady in its own existence; besides, the text that is apparently idealistfinally wriggles into its self-effacement.