LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 6 June 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Tragic Vision of Graham Greene in His Select Novels


A. Joycilin Shermila, Ph.D.

Tragic, Comic and Tragicomic Categories

Graham Greene’s novels can be analyzed in terms of the artistic exploration of modes of experiences that is tragic, comic and tragicomic. The preoccupation with evil sharpens Greene’s tragic sense. Greene’s heroes in most of his early and middle phase novels are undeniably tragic. The tragic is always referred to some aspect of man’s concrete involvement with evil. William J. Rewak in his essay “Maturation of Graham Greene’s vision” in The Catholic World (December, 1957) notes this: “Real maturity does not stop at an insight into the tragic; it involves the tragic completed by and suffused with, a vision of joy.”

This paper focuses on the first phase of novels written by Graham Greene. Distinct features of Greene’s early novels are dealt with in this paper. Characters of Greene are analyzed and compared

The Features of the First Phase of Novels of Graham Greene

In the novels of the first phase, Greene’s tragic sense is predominant. Contradictions, duality and conflict, inner or outer are the essence of tragedy and Greene’s intention is of a tragic purport in his first novel The Man Within (1929).

The Man Within is set in the late 19th century on the English coast. It is the story of Francis Andrews who is tormented by the memory of his dead father, a smuggler. Andrews hates his father for the abuse of his mother which eventually led to her death. Written during his early years as a writer, Graham Greene’s The Man Within is a novelette of self-discovery, friendship and the power over one’s ultimate destiny.

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A. Joycilin Shermila, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Annammal College of Education for Women
Tuticorin – 628 003
Tamilnadu
India
ajshermila@gmail.com

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