The present master's thesis proposes to retrace the modes of conservative thinking in "Parade's End",a war tetralogy written and published by the British novelist Ford Madox Ford between the years 1924 and 1928. Its primary focus will be to examine the alleged transformation of the main protagonist, Christopher Tietjens, introduced as the last surviving Tory and specifically selected by Ford as a medium through which would be best represented the clash between the conservative tradition, as revered by Tietjens, and the modern incarnation of the conservative creed, as well as elements of liberal thinking slowly overtaking the British society of the early twentieth century.