Tag this at the back of your HOD notes

Dig out your HOD lecture notes from last week and add this paragraph at the back:

19th Novel -- social critique but unlike the modern novel, did not fundamentally question society's order and organization in the way a novel like HOD does, e.g., is the white man really the most capable of bringing progress to the world and is he capable of upholding heroic or noble principles once he is out of the structure of his society at home? It was time of uncertainty as a result of new theories and political events. The finality of existence and the stability of old beliefs and structures were questioned.

These ideas are also conveyed by the form of the novel. (Section V of the Introduction)