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This 5 page report discusses Anthony Trollope’s book and examines the consequences of a laissez faire society, especially as it applies to the relationships between men and women. No additional sources cited.
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laissez faire society. At the most basic level, the story is about Melmotte, a rich financier who is able to lead innocents to financial doom largely because he draws
them in with his deceptively moneyed image: "He was not eloquent; but the gentlemen who heard him remembered that he was the great Augustus Melmotte, that he might probably make
them all rich men, and they cheered him to the echo" (PG). It is important to note that although the statement uses the universal "men," certainly men and women
"cheered him to the echo." Trollope, along with many other Victorian novelists, ultimately turned away from a humorous interpretation of men and manners
and gave expression to a vein of social satire which had formerly been suppressed. Most literary critics and historians view "The Way We Live Now" as a statement of his
sense of the loss of ethical values in his age and the blatant substitution of wealth and power as the meaning of life, and consider it to be among his
finest achievements. Both men and women are subject to the loss of awareness of the most important aspects of life and are far more attracted to wealth and power,
regardless of how it is obtained, than any sense of moral achievement and personal development. This attitude also extended far beyond the business relationships and economic interactions of society and
extended to the very core of the relationship between men and women. In "The Way We Live Now" business, politics, social interaction, and literature
all come under Trollopes satirical and intense scrutiny. To read it at the end of the 20th century proves the maxim of "the more things change, the more they stay
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