![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, in order to survive in the society Tony embarks on a quest for self-identity but fails in each attempt. Focusing on Tony Last’s, marriage, social relationships and expedition to Brazil, Waugh delineates a portrait of an innocent man who values the past and its traditions. ![]() In general sense, the author directs his criticism towards the various aspects of English social life indicating the pervading decadence in the soul of the individual and modern zeitgeist. Waugh in this novel illustrates a dark picture of the twentieth century English society and its individuals with the aim of laying bare the “human selfishness and self-delusion” (Ward, 2008, p.679). A Handful of Dust (1934), the fourth novel of Evelyn Waugh, deals with the struggles of the protagonist Tony Last in various stages of the twentieth century society. ![]()
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