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Greene’s Hero: In Quest for Identity through Faith | Original Article

Renu Yadav*, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

ABSTRACT:

In an essay Greene has lamented the loss of the religious sense in the English novel. “It was as if the world of fiction had lost a dimension,” he wrote. Greene is the leading exponent in English of the existentialist – psychological fiction which dominated European literature during the fourties and afterwards. When Greene began his writing career, the period was marked by squalor, depression in moral, spiritual and religious values resulting from the First World War. The period can be well depicted in W.B. Yeat’s words when he sings sadly “Things fall apart, the centre cannot holdmere anarchy is loosened upon the world.”[1] This disillusionment of the age resulted in a marked decline of the spiritual element, anxiety, apathy and agnosticism.