Characters and settings as instruments of revolt against the Catholic dogma in Graham Greene's Brighton Rock.

11. In Greene's Brighton Rock, is Pinkie a realistic character corrupted by his environment, or is he a living symbol of what all men can be like if they allow themselves to be carried always by their impulses? * ** If history truly is a river that, by flowing, repeats itself, then an exciting turn of the tide is bound to change literature in the following years. Looking back from the dawn of the twenty-first century to a …

…rkness at Noon, in the question that is raised: "Maybe man wasn't made to follow every thought down to its last consequence". Maybe what we need is rather a merging of heart, mind and soul. Works cited http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/greene/pg2.shtml Greene, Graham. Brighton Rock, Penguin Books:Great Britain, 1981 Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon, Bantam Modern Classic Edition, 1968 S.E.G., Lea. Instinct, Environment, and Behaviour, Methuen : London, 1984