ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
A
A teacher
B
A clerk
C
A thief
D
A dentist
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mr. Tench. An Englishman living in Mexico and working as a dentist.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mr. Tench is a dissatisfied English dentist who longs to return from Mexico to England. He befriends the priest, whom he meets at the quayside, and later witnesses his death. Coral Fellows: The thirteen-year-old daughter of Captain and Mrs. Fellows.

Detailed explanation-3: -Captain Fellows is an American living in Mexico with Mrs. Fellows, his wife, and his young daughter, running the “Central American Banana Company.” He returns home one day and his wife informs him that his daughter, Coral Fellows is speaking with a police officer about a priest who is at large in the area.

Detailed explanation-4: -Graham Greene’s novel “The Power and the Glory” written in the 1940’s is a significance reference to the Lords Prayer which stipulates that Gods kingdom, His power and the glory shall rule now and forever. This indicates that religion will withstand any force against it since God wants people to inherit His Kingdom.

Detailed explanation-5: -Greene’s finest novel, The Power and the Glory (1940; also published as The Labyrinthine Ways; adapted as the film The Fugitive, 1947), has a more directly Catholic theme: the desperate wanderings of a priest who is hunted down in rural Mexico at a time when the church is outlawed there.

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