Graham Greene was born on October 2, 1904 in Berkhamsted, Hartfordshire as Henry Graham Greene, the son of a headmaster in Berkhamsted School which he attended for some years. After running away from school, he was sent to a psychoanalyst in London to be under treatment. Afterwards, in 1926, at the age

The aim of this paper is, by providing examples from The Third Man by Graham Greene, to point out the situations in which moral and evil or right and wrong are mixed up under the conditions of friendship, love and need of money in a morally corrupted society. The characters in this novel face an event which forces them to make a decision in the expense of morality but what is moral and what is immoral? These are the questions that should be posed and that everyone looks forward to learn. However, Greene tries to explain in his novel that this problem remains uncertain. Firstly, social issues and extraordinary phenomena in Austria in the period Greene lived will be explained and then, how the author reflected these conditions in his novel The Third Man will be analysed in detail. After a brief plot of the novel, moral dilemma that each character goes through will take place. To sum up, this paper is prepared to prove the existence of the colour grey on the contrary to the widespread belief of white and black in the extreme ends.

In the book The Third Man, Greene tries to give the impression of the moral dilemma each important character falls into: Rollo Martins, Harry Lime and Anna Schmidt. In one page, one decides that the person is true, fair and “good”; the next page, he changes his mind and judges that the person is immoral and “bad”. It goes on like this till the end of the book and at the end, one can draw no conclusion apart from the fact that a person cannot be just “good” or “bad”; he can have a mixture of the both sides. This is the effect that Greene exactly wants to impose on the reader. Miller, in his book Understanding Graham Greene, explains the duality in Greene’s book in the following way:

… (T)wo worlds are constantly either resonating or colliding with each other at various points in the narrative flow. One world is outer; it is the geographical place. The other is inner; it is the human heart. What grips Greene’s readers in this manifold and complex series of conflicts and resonances is their concern for both world, for the fate of a society or a culture on the one hand, and for human beings on the other (12).

In these days, old man, nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don’t, so why should we? They talk of the people and the proletariat, and I talk of the mugs. It’s the same thing. They have their five-year plans and so have I (20).

Some topics in this essay:
Harry Lime, Lime Martins, Graham Greene, Harry Lime’s, Harry’s Harry’s, Anna Schmidt, War II, Carol Reed, Martins Martins, George Orwell, harry lime, graham greene, anna schmidt, love lime, russian government, rollo martins, “good” “bad”, russian zone, love anna, government police, racket business lime, corrupted penicillin kills, government religion society, friend harry lime, world war Ï,