Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory:A Religious Study of a Troubled Psyche

Abstract

The aim of this research is to make known first of all who Graham Greene is .Is he a religious author or not is one of the questions that needs to have an answer .The research shows to what extent the author appears religious in his novel ,The Power and the Glory and in what way he portrays his characters . Not only does it discuss his religious beliefs , it sheds light on the psychological background of the writer which comes to have a profound impact on his writings . It pictures how his confused childhood psyche plus his wavering theological faith bring him to have a paradoxical and ambivalent view of life ,one that is powerfully manifested in the novel's main characters ,"the whisky priest " in addition to the lieutenant .