Indian Ink and A Room with a View are both set in different eras. A Room with a View is set in the Edwardian era when, like the book's central character, people were beginning to challenge Victorian attitudes about emotions and sexuality and old ideas about class and religion. It was published in 1908 and was Forster's third novel. Forster's characters, like Forster himself, lived at the height of the British Empire. The novel is about a young woman, Lucy Honeychurch, whose love for a British socialist and experiences in Florence lead her to question the values ​​that society has imposed on her. It is particularly interesting that the novel is set in Florence, which was the center of the Renaissance. The word renaissance means rebirth and this could be symbolic of the rebirth of Lucy's ideas and values. Indian Ink is written as a play and is set in the 1930s and 1980s. In the 1930s the scene is set in India, which belongs to the British Empire. At this time a visiting young poet named Flora Crewe finds herself caught between two very different societies. The 1980s section of the work is set in England, where sixty years after the poet's death, her sister and the son of the artist with whom Flora was associated meet. Although it is written like a play, it reads as if it were written like a novel as it is very descriptive and even describes the color of Flora's "cornflower blue dress". Lucy, the central character of A Room with a View, is the daughter of the rich novice. Like Flora, she is young, charming and friendly. At the beginning of the novel Lucy is relatively uninformed and gradually over the course of the book she learns more not only about Italy but about herself. At the end of the novel like Flora, Lucy is a strong and......middle of paper......that in A Room with a View, perhaps this is also to show the difference and similarities between the two cultures. Both writers use humor differently. Forster makes fun of his characters delicately, he is not harsh and this allows the reader to develop affection for them. Stoppard's characters however are themselves funny in the things they say, this also allows for a deeper understanding of the characters but in a different way than Forster. The central characters of Indian Ink and A Room with a View present the ideas of Stoppard and Forster through their experiences of growing up and changing ideas in the foreign countries they visit.BibliographyBooksIndian Ink - Tom StoppardA Room with a View - E.M. ForsterThe Oxford Encyclopedic English DictionaryVideoHat and DustA Room with a ViewInternetwww.amazon.comwww.tstoppardbib.com