Sarah Miles may have had the façade of a loyal, loving wife, but at night her promiscuous nature was revealed. She became addicted to the covertness of affairs and longed to be embraced as her husband never did. Her desire to have a physical...

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” -Elie Wiesel

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What we watch on screen in the course of a film is the culmination of the skills of artists: writers, directors, animators, actors. When a book is made into a film, screenwriters may use aspects of literary design, which have the ability to alter...

The novel The Quiet American, by Graham Greene, tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspectives of three different characters. Fowler represents the British viewpoint and is also the narrator of the novel. Pyle gives the American...

Set during the throws of the Cold War offensive and the threat of the domino theory in Asia, Graham Greene's fiction annexes his experiences as a war correspondent in Indochina during the years 1951 – 1954 into his works, impart reasoning and...

In Graham Greene’s novel, The Quiet American, one of the main points of discussion is the West’s involvement in Vietnam. A telling scene that explores this theme is the dive-bombing one in which Fowler accompanies a French pilot, Captain Trouin,...

Graham Greene’s novel The Heart of the Matter deals with compassion and surveillance, as well as religion at the times of the World War II. The main character, Henry Scobie, who is a middle-aged man working as an Assistant Commission of Police,...

In Graham Greene’s dynamic novel The Power and the Glory, we follow the Whiskey Priest throughout his harrowing journey as he runs for his life, avoiding capture and death at the hands of the Lieutenant. This novel shows the development of the...

The novelist of Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, is said to always have been interested in the metaphysical questions involved in Catholicism and its doctrine: what is the essence of survival and existence; what is the real purpose of God and the...

The conflict between good and evil is a prevalent theme in literature. Graham Greene incorporates the conflict throughout the text of his novel Brighton Rock. In order to do this he uses two prominent characters, Ida Arnold and Pinkie Brown. Ida...

Throughout crime fiction such as ‘Atonement’ and ‘Brighton Rock’, unwitting characters fall to the machinations that antagonists - even immature antagonists - set for them. While some might argue that the characters in Graham Greene’s novel ‘...

Undoubtedly, religion is theme which permeates Brighton Rock, acting as backdrop for significant events which symbolise morality, or with regards to antagonistic Pinkie, the lack thereof. In the genre of crime, it is conventional that religion...

Many of Graham Greene’s works of literature include references to the author’s homeland, England. After living through World War II and experiencing the instability following the war, Greene weaves symbolism of England into his fiction. In his...

In Graham Greene’s A Gun for Sale and Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, the authors explore the consequences of the new technology of the telephone. Both books describe how telephones are a form of miscommunication, accidental and intended, due to the...