Alienated World of Graham Greene in It’s A Battlefield and The Name of Action

Graham Greene is a novelist of dangerous edge that cuts off the sin from the sinner. His protagonists are lonely and alienated men who grope for some faith to live by. Caught in the contradictions of love and life, they are at the loss to understand the ways of God and man. The atmosphere of Greenland is permeated with gloomy reflections upon disloyalty, despair, loneliness and death. The present paper is an effort to depict a sensitivity type of man of Greene’s novels who would rather reject established social and religious codes of conduct and fear the loneliness and despair accompanying his isolated position. He in his novels writes about a man probing deep into his mind and intellect and the conflicts that rage there. It is the man within besieged by despair who occupies the central position in his novels. Such a man has to choose for himself without the aid of any outside help the question of commitment, a commitment for which he alone shall be responsible.