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A paper which looks at the treatment of Nazism in Britain in Remains of the Day, and the author's comentary on the relationship between upper and lower classes as exemplified by Stevens and Lord Darlington. Bibliography lists 4 sources
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relationship demonstrated by Stevens and Lord Darlington seems bewildering in terms of present-day social structures, in the 1930s it was entirely plausible. However, as George Orwell points out, the position
of the ruling class in Britain had become, over the years, unjustifiable. The aristocracy had, over
the centuries, gradually devolved from an elite group who genuinely ruled the country and took responsibility for their decisions and actions into a functionless class . . . the idle
rich" (PG) who were content to exist at the centre of a financial and political empire from which they reaped the benefits with very little effort on their part. Since
the status quo worked indisputably in their favour, there was no reason for them to consider ways in which the inequality of the system could be changed; or, indeed, to
try and comprehend the fact that it possibly could be changed.
At the same time, the doctrines of subservience and keeping to ones allotted station in life, knowing ones place, were so firmly entrenched in the consciousness of those who
were emphatically not members of the aristocracy that it was almost impossible for them to transcend their conditioning and upbringing. The average Briton believed, in short, that he was superior
to the inhabitants of any other nation in the world but simultaneously and irrevocably inferior to the higher echelons of his own society.
The English did not give much thought to the denizens of foreign countries, except to dismiss them
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