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Graham Greene’s Works  ● Four major Catholic novels  ● Brighton Rock  ● The Power and the Glory  ● The Heart of the Matter  ● The End of the Affair   ● A Burnt-Out-Case—set in a leper colony  ● Our Man in Havana—satire on contemporary spy novels   The Power and the Glory (1940)  ● Set in the state of Tabasco in Mexico during the 1930s, when the Mexican government   strove to suppress the Catholic Church.  ● The main character is a nameless Roman Catholic ‘whisky priest’, who combines a great power for self-destruction with a desperate quest for dignity.  ● The other main character is a Lieutenant of the police who is given the task of hunting   down this priest. He is a committed socialist who despises everything that the church stands for.

"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller is a powerful and haunting play that explores the disintegration of the American Dream and the tragic consequences of pursuing a false sense of success and happiness. Set in the 1940s, the story revolves around the life of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life and struggles to distinguish between reality and illusion. Willy Loman is a complex character who embodies the ideals of the American Dream - the belief that hard work and determination will lead to success and prosperity. However, as the play unfolds, it becomes evident that Willy's pursuit of the American Dream has become a futile and destructive obsession. He is haunted by his failures and consumed by delusions of grandeur, desperately clinging to a distorted version of success that isolates him from his family and pushes him to the brink of despair. Through the use of flashbacks and dream sequences, Miller presents a fracture