Hg. Wells is an English writer, best known for his work in the genre of science fiction.

He is known as
father of fiction. He wrote such books as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds among many others.
He had amazing ability to look years ahead and write about the technologies that were not even
theories during the time. His every work possesses the hinge of science fiction where facts are
intertwined with the fantasies of that time. Diamond maker is one of same, having profound
psychological as well as social aspects. It was written in the Victorian age when there was a huge conflict
between religion and sciences. Logic plays with reason while religion is bound to the bible. During the
nineteenth century, the entities religion and science underwent dramatic changes, this change affected
time and place, from one individual to another. There were after effects of French revolution, it was
materialistic bent of mind, industrialization was at its apex and moreover Darwin theory of evolution
worked as cherry on cake for atheism. All these things shook the concept of God. People were getting
more logical than religious. They were perceiving things with utilitarian approach. The discoveries were
giving threats to Christianization in the form of urban population and fast life. It was era of trend
followers, finding themselves great scholars, an educated elite class having a false paradigm for the ones
below their social level. Religion took backseat to science, and it seemed as if God is powerless against
the rising age of machine.

As the story starts, we find subtle description of scenery, where we see an immense darkness and some
faraway lights that are falling evenly on the dark water without breaking its silence and water is full of
dirt. It is actually a picture of cosmopolitan London, a city that never sleeps. This dirty water is that dirty
fast society; beams are light of faith and darkness is science. Faith cant change anything in that society
and darkness i-e science helping to hide all this filth of society.

From our two main characters of diamond maker, first our narrator and second diamond maker himself,
we can see two facets of society. First, the people who are inhumane and doubtful, highly learned and
acquiring high fi posts in their professions and other, the struggling society, the ones who are driven by
their passions and ambitions to get something worthwhile in their life.

Our narrator is victim of skepticism. He hardly finds himself believing on anything, he is doubtful most of
the times; his logical skills keep him away from trusting anyone. He judges people from their
appearance, he judges book from its cover without intention of peeking a glance inside it. He believes
that he knows the taste of fruit just by looking at its outward ripened color. He made a paradigm of this
worn out person as some poor or nave from his ragged and old clothes despite the reality was quite
contradictory. He was so hollow that he believed that even if he asked about introduction; he would
have to pay for night. It was the insensitive and materialistic attitude of Victorian age towards each
other.

As diamond maker tell us about his story, he was so resentful from his life, he struggled all his life just to
get his ambition but it led him to nothing, his aims were higher but he end up as a beggar, he believed
that his whole life went in vain, he struggled like a candle, consuming himself to let the fire burn but as
wax melted, fire eventually died. It got him nothing. And now he says, all this game of ambition didnt
worth struggle because they couldnt provide him shelter nor food moreover no peace. He had given his
whole life to this ambition and he doesnt wanted everyone to get ingredients of making diamonds
because it will make diamonds worthless and every other person would keep diamonds tied around
their necks. But its ironically, that he himself was carrying diamonds of million dollars but still he was
poor.

The huge shortcoming of Victorian age was that people had less time for each other like this diamond
maker wanted to get relief by telling his misery to someone and selling his diamonds at cheaper price.
They were self-centered and money monger. People used to live together in so called urban population
but technology had made them more lonely and isolated than ever. As diamond maker was grounded to
his own lab for his experiments.

Narrator was so doubtful that all he was thinking about how this beggar got that big piece of diamond
even though he told him all his story, he didnt even wanted to risk five pounds for someone who is so in
miserable condition yet he regrets in last that may be he had missed greatest opportunity in his life to
become billionaire.