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BRITISH WRITERS


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Biography

Graham Greene was an English novelist.

he was born on 2nd October 1904,Berkhamsted,Hertfordshire

the important things that we should take note about him wasduring his school time he was badly bullied and he had madeseveral attempt to suicide.

in 1920, he was psychoanalysed for six month in London.

has a background of some mental problems

The fourth of six children, Greene was a shyand sensitive youth


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shy & sensitive youth

dislike sports, truant from school to read

adventure stories

writes on treachery & betrayal : oftenbeen tormented for being the

headmasters son

attempted suicide several times

died on Apr.3, 1991 (Vevey, Switzerland)

Graham Greene


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Graham Greenes Works

His works explore the ambivalent moral and

political issues of the modern world

The protagonists of Greene's fiction are

typically people torn by personal struggles

with Roman Catholic concepts of sin andsalvation, reflecting the author's concern

with religious and moral questions.

lost childhood, dreams, literature and art,and politics


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1925 Babbling April

1929 The Man Within

1930 The Name of Action

1932 Rumour at Nightfall

1932 Stamboul Train ( Orient Express )

1934 It's a Battlefield

1935 England made Me1936 Journey without Maps

1936 A Gun for Sale ( This Gun for Hire )

1938 Brighton Rock

1939 The Lawless Roads ( Another Mexico )

1939 The Confidential Agent

1940 The Power and The Glory ( The Labyrinthine Ways )

1943 The Ministry of Fear

1948 The Heart of the Matter

1950 The Third Man

1951 The End of the Affair

1955 The Quiet American

1958 Our Man in Havana

1961 A Burntout Case

1963 A Sense of Reality

1966 The Comedians1969 Travels with My Aunt

1973 The Honorary Consul

1978 The Human Factor

1980 Dr. Fischer of Geneva, or The Bomb Party

1982 Monsignor Quixote

1985 Getting to know the General

1985 The Tenth Man

1988 The Captain and the Enemy


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Summary

We meet a character called Craven who has a recurrent nightmare in which all

the dead people walked in and out of each other's grave. He goes to the

cinema where a man sits next to him and starts talking rubbish.

Craven thinks that the man is boasting that he is the murderer who was

recently in the news. The stranger's hands are "damp and sticky" and leave a

smear of blood on Cravens hands. So Craven does the most sensible thing hecan think of and informs the police. However, they tell him that the murderer

has already been apprehended. It is the body of the victim that has not yet

been found. Suddenly he remembers that when the small man sitting next to

him in the cinema theatre spoke to him, "he sprayed him with damp breath."

Craven now looks at his face in the mirror and realises that "his own face issprinkled by tiny drops of blood." To his horror he realised that the stranger is

not the murderer but the victim. At this point Craven goes berserk, screaming

the he won't go mad. But we know that he already has.


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> Death

> hatred of the human body

> fear> obsession

> insanity


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Psychoanalytic Theory (Sigmund Freud)

> Sexual desire

Cravens desire towards women is not fulfilledsince he is poor, and he is not having a good

shape of body. He always wonders whether

there is something wrong with him that made

him cannot approach women.

The second extract show Cravens interest on

the slaves in the show. He may just describe thesituation as Pompilia lays on her slave.


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> Ego-Defense Mechanisms

Craven didn't admit that he is mad andkept telling himself that he is not mad.

In reality, how can a dead man wake up

from grave and talk to us?


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Archetypal / myth Criticism

#collective unconsciousness - a set ofprimal memories common to human race,

existing below each person's conscious

mind

#shadow - darker, sometimes hidden

(deliberately or unconsciously), elements

of a person's psyche


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