TREATMENT OF SOCIAL ISSUES IN THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS

Literature reflects human activity in that particularly society. It helps to expose societal realities. Most of the works in literature deals with the social issues in detail which helps people to realize the truth and think it in a different view than the people who don’t show their face to literature. It have a unique function in shaping and teaching society at huge. Literature carries the real events in the society and presents it as a mirror of the society so that people can view it and atone wherever it is necessary. Nineteenth-century Europe, sparked by the Enlightenment’s notion of equality, underwent numerous political and social revolutions. In England this was represented by the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832 and the repeal of the Corn Laws. Both were huge victories for the Liberal, then Whig, cause, regardless of which party was in control of the government at the time. Trollope’s stance on such issues can be seen in his treatment of similar measures, some fictitious, others real, in the novels that comprise his Palliser series. In England during this time, the quest for equal treatment under the law for all residents was gaining popularity. Bills were passed which legalized Catholicism and which made citizens of the Jews living in England. This paper is an attempt to depict the Social Issues in the Eustace Diamonds.