“The Duchess and The Jeweller” with the theme of the rise of the middle class. Discuss.
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“The Duchess and the Jeweller” is one of those stories which are set in the sensibility and historicity of ’ their own days Of England: the high-ups are coming down. The nobility is suffering from moral decadence; and the commoners have taken the lead in spite of their
psychological fixations.
The Jeweller had slowly risen in social scale whereas the Duchess had slowly fallen down. The Jeweller wished to buy honour through money. He owned a lot of money. The Duchess, on the other hand, wished to maintain honour by selling the family jewels, even the fake ones under the pretence that those are real ones.
Thus we see that both the classes of English society are changing their respective places in the age of transition as depicted by the writer. Just after the Victorian era, the commoners started to go ahead with the help of growing commerce and industry. At the same time, the aristocracy started to come down because of their moral and economic decadence. The story ‘The Duchess and the Jewellers” by Virginia Woolf mirrors all . these social changes in a representative way. .
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