Insecurities of the past linger about in humans and become toxic if they cannot be dealt with or alternatively let go of. In The Destructors, by Graham Greene, he explores the remnant of the broken structure in England post World War 2, and significance England’s former legacy in rebuilding post war. After the Second World War the foundations of society were almost completely decimated. The family structure was inexistent for the middle class, as parents had to slave away in an England that hardly seemed like civilization. However, despite all the destruction, the rigid class structure with monarchist nobles and the wealthy at the top survived as symbolised in the story by Old Misery’s house. Representing the middle class in the short story
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Being a relic and “jagged tooth” suggests that it is dated and due to be gone because if it does not go it will be disruptive alike a jagged tooth pushing other teeth into disarray. Removing that tooth is not a dentist but the gang. Destroying Old Misery’s house the gang is metaphorically leveling what is left the legacy of monarchist and aristocratic England. It is clear that the house represents what is left of old England as on the outside it looks rundown but the interior is filled with valuable riches alike what the upper-class would have. While the rest of England is rebuilding itself post war the house and what it represents sits there hindering progress. When the house is finally gone that clears the way for everything to be rebuilt from the ground up. Once again it is re-established that destruction is an instrument of creation. In the absence of the house and the traditional structure the common middle class people are able to liberate themselves. Through the next few decades in history people disposed of the traditional structure and rebuilt into a society where liberties are afforded and guaranteed to everybody through a constitution. If the values of the old world had been entrenched the middle class would not have been able to make their rise in
Being a relic and “jagged tooth” suggests that it is dated and due to be gone because if it does not go it will be disruptive alike a jagged tooth pushing other teeth into disarray. Removing that tooth is not a dentist but the gang. Destroying Old Misery’s house the gang is metaphorically leveling what is left the legacy of monarchist and aristocratic England. It is clear that the house represents what is left of old England as on the outside it looks rundown but the interior is filled with valuable riches alike what the upper-class would have. While the rest of England is rebuilding itself post war the house and what it represents sits there hindering progress. When the house is finally gone that clears the way for everything to be rebuilt from the ground up. Once again it is re-established that destruction is an instrument of creation. In the absence of the house and the traditional structure the common middle class people are able to liberate themselves. Through the next few decades in history people disposed of the traditional structure and rebuilt into a society where liberties are afforded and guaranteed to everybody through a constitution. If the values of the old world had been entrenched the middle class would not have been able to make their rise in