Essays on Graham Greene

“The Destructors” – Graham Greene

“The Most Dangerous Game” - Richard Connell

Rainsford in “The Most Dangerous Game”

Trevor in “The Destructors” Brief description of both, pointing huge difference between the two protagonists – and between the location and context of each story – which influence the action and therefore, the plot - What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the characters developed such qualities? Rainsford – courage, intelligence, a sense of morality, resourceful, the ability to endure hardship, calm in the face of danger – previous experience and the First World War

Trevor – reticent, determined, inventive, malicious – his family’s fall in social status perhaps.

- What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes and behaviors? What ...

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Abstract The institution of matrimony is the one which has to wade through many troubled waters and thereby is considered to be one of the most volatile and sensitive relationships which is quite often threatened by infidelity. For instance, in today’s world, we get to see marriages falling apart like a house of cards and the culprit of these mishaps are more often not the infidelity of one or both of the partners. It is quite natural for a married couple to lose interest in each other’s personalities which if often perceived to be the root cause of ...

The novel quite America was written by Graham Greene. The objective of the novel was to show why wars are not good. Graham was motivated to write the book by an American aid worker. The aim of graham was to discourage wars that were present during the time. Graham used the novel to show how America was involved in wars and this made him to be closely investigated by America until his death. There are three main characters in the novel. Alden Pyle is one of the characters who is an American graduate who believe that communism and democracy ...

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This essay offers a Marxist perspective of Graham Greene’s short story “The Destructors,” where the protagonist Trevor is portrayed as the Marxist intellectual who endeavors to overthrow the old regime and enforce a new one. Being the child of an architect, he uses his creative knowledge to destroy the house that symbolizes old values and regime, and his creativity is so well though through that is equals the architect’s efforts at creating this beautiful house. Green reveals only a limited omniscient narrator voice, which urges the reader not to merely blindly follow the information given about the characters and their ...