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RELIGIOUS VISION: A STUDY OF GRAHAM GREENE'S NOVELS

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A work of fiction is an aesthetic representation of the society and the author's personality. The inner life of an author is reflected in his works. The author's imagination embodies in his characters the fundamental conflicts of his own nature. That every writer is a product of his times and his outlook on life is conditioned by the mood of his age and Greene is no exception. The social, political and economic developments of the century, far from resolving the split, the schizophrenia in man's personality have further aggravated it. The experience of two world wars, have accentuated the individuals feelings of loneliness, disillusionment and sterility. Greene emphasizes the seediness, sterility and despair of modern civilization. He however is not content to give merely the picture of frustration and rootlessness but emphasizes that religion alone can give us relief. Man he warns will lose all his human qualities unless he holds on to faith in religion. The spiritual void has to be filled in order to feel at home in challenging universe and face the brute forces of evil.
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4.Graham Greene, The Lost Childhood and Other Essays (London: Penguin, 1962), p.14-15.
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6. Graham Greene, A Sort of Life. 1971; (rpt London Penguin Books, 1977), p.11, 54.
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16. A.J.M. Smith, "Graham Greene's Theological Thrillers", Queen's Quarterly, 68 (Spring, 1961), p.17.

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