Analysis Of Brighton Rock By Graham Greene
Introduction:
Graham Greene is celebrated as one of the most prevalent post-war novelists who gave Englishnovel the spiritual heights. Thus he has been classified as a modern spiritualwriter and a great literary giant. [1] As a Catholic writer, Greene’s artof letters cruciallydeal with the subjects of sin and spiritualityvia different themes like man’s relationship with himself, with society and with God. Greene,in his novels emphatically deals with the ideology that only faith in God can save man from destruction. His conceptions are very central to the Christian theology. For this great reason too, Graham Greene is regarded as one of the greatest English Catholic novelist of the twentieth Century. Greene's faith in Catholicism is evidently …show more content…
Seemingly, these characters remain perfect, without any fault and are over-confident about their perfection. But in reality they are far from purity –physically, mentally or spiritually. They are always keen in crucifying the common, outwardly imperfect beings without bothering about their own blatant imperfections.Greene pertinently comments through his characters in his works that evil and sin can affect one’s life but he wins grace of God with a deep sense of spiritualty and purity of mind. He proposes to faithfully look at life with courage and faith in man and God. The characters like Ida Arnold in Brighton Rock never win the love and compassion of the society or of God. Greene also mentions 'ego' which sojourns a person to make an assessment about his own status, physically, mentally or spiritually and these individuals never attain Spiritual progress at the same time their condition moves from bad to worse and in effect there is a retardation or retracing of the steps on the spiritual path.InThe Ministry of Fear quoted by S. K. Sharma in his book: “Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. Love isn't safe when pity's prowling round.”[2]
The Bible witnesses of the fact that no man is without ills and sins, not even one, but the divine God, Jesus Christ, forgives and defends them, all. He forgives and derides those who have lost their purity, physically. But again for their spiritual sins, he criticizes them, as it is in his words …show more content…
So he cannot be directly considered among the damned ones but for the devil forces, instead he deserves the sympathy and understanding of the others. But all these, he fails to win from his relatives and society as a consequence angularities and psychic disorders become a part of his character.
Greene very aptly defends the character Pinkie who is damned, to give a clear conception of sin and spirituality where the moderating circumstances of his sins, holds back him in a favourable light. Thus, Pinkie is a character who may be accepted by God –who is highly merciful with a strangeness of mystery that cannot be just comprehended by other than a religiously spiritual man. Thus, the conventional approach towards sin spirituality is skillfully made in Greene’s
Graham Greene is celebrated as one of the most prevalent post-war novelists who gave Englishnovel the spiritual heights. Thus he has been classified as a modern spiritualwriter and a great literary giant. [1] As a Catholic writer, Greene’s artof letters cruciallydeal with the subjects of sin and spiritualityvia different themes like man’s relationship with himself, with society and with God. Greene,in his novels emphatically deals with the ideology that only faith in God can save man from destruction. His conceptions are very central to the Christian theology. For this great reason too, Graham Greene is regarded as one of the greatest English Catholic novelist of the twentieth Century. Greene's faith in Catholicism is evidently …show more content…
Seemingly, these characters remain perfect, without any fault and are over-confident about their perfection. But in reality they are far from purity –physically, mentally or spiritually. They are always keen in crucifying the common, outwardly imperfect beings without bothering about their own blatant imperfections.Greene pertinently comments through his characters in his works that evil and sin can affect one’s life but he wins grace of God with a deep sense of spiritualty and purity of mind. He proposes to faithfully look at life with courage and faith in man and God. The characters like Ida Arnold in Brighton Rock never win the love and compassion of the society or of God. Greene also mentions 'ego' which sojourns a person to make an assessment about his own status, physically, mentally or spiritually and these individuals never attain Spiritual progress at the same time their condition moves from bad to worse and in effect there is a retardation or retracing of the steps on the spiritual path.InThe Ministry of Fear quoted by S. K. Sharma in his book: “Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. Love isn't safe when pity's prowling round.”[2]
The Bible witnesses of the fact that no man is without ills and sins, not even one, but the divine God, Jesus Christ, forgives and defends them, all. He forgives and derides those who have lost their purity, physically. But again for their spiritual sins, he criticizes them, as it is in his words …show more content…
So he cannot be directly considered among the damned ones but for the devil forces, instead he deserves the sympathy and understanding of the others. But all these, he fails to win from his relatives and society as a consequence angularities and psychic disorders become a part of his character.
Greene very aptly defends the character Pinkie who is damned, to give a clear conception of sin and spirituality where the moderating circumstances of his sins, holds back him in a favourable light. Thus, Pinkie is a character who may be accepted by God –who is highly merciful with a strangeness of mystery that cannot be just comprehended by other than a religiously spiritual man. Thus, the conventional approach towards sin spirituality is skillfully made in Greene’s