Summary Of Graham Greene's The Power And The Glory
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In the 1920s and 1930s, a number of British writers wrote on Mexico: D. H. Lawrence in The Plumed Serpent and Mornings in Mexico; Aldous Huxley in Beyond the Mexico Bay; and Evelyn Waugh in Robbery Under Law. Graham Greene also set his 1939 novel The Power and the Glory in Mexico. Greene drew materials for the novel from his own trip to Mexico the previous year in 1938. He recorded the factual experience in The Lawless Roads, while facts and fiction combined in The Power and the Glory. In this novel, Greene captures the persecution on religion inflicted by the then totalitarian regime in Mexico under President Calles. Greene, during his Mexico visit, saw to his surprise how religious faith, even though suppressed, refused to die down in the face of bullet. The Whisky Priest in the novel becomes the embodiment of this thriving faith in religion
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