International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature
A Critical Analysis of the Priest in the Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Mathias Adande Mehounou, Marcellin Abadame, Gerard Adounsiba
University of Abomey-Calavi
Copyright :Mathias Adande Mehounou, Marcellin Abadame, Gerard Adounsiba, A Critical Analysis of the Priest in the Power and the Glory by Graham Greene International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature
Abstract
In this article, I have sought to analyse the character of the whiskey priest in his painful and desperate quest for repentance. This quest, at first unsatisfied, urges him on fleeing away because of his rejection of the story of his rejection of the moral values which govern the world in which he lives. The story of the whiskey priest in The Power and the Glory can also be seen as the one of a man who suffers like Jesus Christ on the Way of the Cross, from human beings and from Nature. The consequence in that he goes through a moral growth in the sense that, in the end, he proves himself to be modest, compassionate in disrupting the lieutenant?s habitual way of looking at the Catholic clergy.