• Dr. Chandra Bhushan Varde

Abstract: Greene has depicted dilemma of the intellectuals with artistic grandeur in his novels. Contradictory situations, points of views, characters and incidents are intermingled to investigate the similarities of opposites. In Brighton Rock Pinkie and Ida have dichotomy in their own characters. Pinkie and Rose with contrasting nature are bound together. The priest consoles Rose that a man’s personality is dichotomous he may appear a Satan by his deeds but he can be a saint. In The Heart of the Matter Scobie is a rare combination of good and evil, morality and immorality. His relations with his wife, his friendship with smuggler Yusef, and his affair with Helen present a rare dichotomy. In The Power and the Glory both the priest and the lieutenant are striving for sainthood, paradoxically, without asceticism for the priest or humanitarianism for the lieutenant. In The End of the Affair Bendrix’s affair with Sarah swings between love and hate and ends with faith in God. Sarah gets sainthood through sin. Greene shows that sin and sanctity, good and evil are intensely intertwined in a man and it is impossible to separate them. Thus the dichotomy of good and evil and their coexistence focuses his central themes.

Opposites, coexistence, non-conformity, redemption, damnation

"Dichotomy in Catholic Novels of Greene", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.85-90, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908950.pdf

"Dichotomy in Catholic Novels of Greene", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp85-90, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908950.pdf