No state follows a straight forward path of development from traditionalism to modernity, cleavages and conflicts are part of every society, any society cannot find release from them, and like happiness and grief are the assets of every human life. An autonomous/self-governing aristocracy does not readily abandon its vantages to a centralizing monarchy, nor does landed nobility greet the growth of a middle class whose new wealth derives from trade, investment, banking, commerce or industrial production. The organization of reformist political movements, mass-based political parties is unlikely encouraged by a dominant Church, in its popular influence and authority, a reduction produces correctly.
Past remains a past, whose history comes to the present generation through bookish supplements. The present pattern of politics becomes a history after few years.
The present pattern of politics may thus undergo profound transformation. Instead of a textbook that will enhance understanding of the present, what is written here may become only a history of the irrelevant past. (242)
The novel sheds light on the orientations and strategies of people living into that society. The whole story of the king Henry’s reign highlights the social, cultural and political scenario of the …show more content…
As history repeats itself and past becomes present and even future for us, a specific era may carry seeds of the modernist era and impart a new sense to the contemporary issues when juxtaposed with past events. Mantel revisits the historical events in her novel thereby exhibiting a relationship between history and literature which pervades all eras and all societies. Literature looks through history and history becomes more accessible through literature, both foregrounding their proximity to historiographic works in