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The Power And The Glory (1939) Compare and Contrast the Priest and the Lieutenant.
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GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE COURSEWORK Graham Greene (1904-1991) The Power And The Glory (1939) Compare and Contrast the Priest and the Lieutenant When the powers of good and evil collide, a battle is inevitable. At first glance, Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory appears to agree with this idea. However, under closer observation of the two great adversaries in the novel, the priest and the lieutenant, it would be difficult to say clearly who is good and who is evil. Graham Greene tends to take the sides of both characters, creating an interesting conflict. In an initial comparison, the two seem to be opposites (the priest playing the criminal and the lieutenant playing the cop). However, is the criminal bad and the cop good? Or are both good and both bad? When both personalities are examined, their equality becomes clear. The main unnamed characters of the story are 'the whisky priest,' the last working priest,...
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