Resumo de The Battlefield

The whole life of human being passes in the predicament of what to do and what not to do. This is the battle with in and battle with out. Exigencies of life demand one thing and the moral code of society demands another. On one side is the fear of failure and starvation, on the other side is the fear of being classified into the category of evil person and sometimes subsequent persecution in the hands of law.
Graham Greene in his novel The Battle Field depicts the polarities of life. Conder, a low paid journalist in novel says that one embezzler is in prison while the other men of same kind were sent to parliament. What a bitter truth! Now the people who so to say are the protectors of the law are hopelessly confused with the notions of justice and injustice. In the world of anarchy is it possible to any norms to survive?
Conrad Drover, the protagonist of the novel, loves his brother Jim and craves justice for him who has been sentenced to death for killing a policeman at a communist meeting. However, Jim had thought that he was defending his wife from a blow, and the death was almost an accident. How great irony is this that Conrad and his brother?s wife Milly fight the battle for securing a pardon for him, but they are not sure of their real motives. Milly loves Jim Deeply. But she wonders how things might shape if Jim?s life were spared and he came back after serving a sentence of eighteen years in prison. Will she at the age of forty five, be able to love him with same passion? She shudders at the idea of spending eighteen loveless lonely years. Conrad is equally disturbed by this thought, and, ends up by sleeping with Milly. What an irony it is that brother whom he loves, he betrays by seducing his brother?s wife. His surrender to passion fills him with the terror of living. He becomes the battlefield of conflicting impulses.
The struggle to find a justification for suffering is the quest lies at the heart of the novel. The conflict is between what a person wants to be and what he is. But since one has to cope not only with the force
The whole life of human being passes in the predicament of what to do and what not to do. This is the battle with in and battle with out. Exigencies of life demand one thing and the moral code of society demands another. On one side is the fear of failure and starvation, on the other side is the fear of being classified into the category of evil person and sometimes subsequent persecution in the hands of law.
Graham Greene in his novel The Battle Field depicts the polarities of life. Conder, a low paid journalist in novel says that one embezzler is in prison while the other men of same kind were sent to parliament. What a bitter truth! Now the people who so to say are the protectors of the law are hopelessly confused with the notions of justice and injustice. In the world of anarchy is it possible to any norms to survive?
Conrad Drover, the protagonist of the novel, loves his brother Jim and craves justice for him who has been sentenced to death for killing a policeman at a communist meeting. However, Jim had thought that he was defending his wife from a blow, and the death was almost an accident. Hw great irony is this that Conrad and his brother?s wife Milly fight the battle for securing a pardon for him, but they are not sure of their real motives. Milly loves Jim Deeply. But she wonders how things might shape if Jim?s life were spared and he came back after serving a sentence of eighteen years in prison. Will she at the age of forty five, be able to love him with same passion? She shudders at the idea of spending eighteen loveless lonely years. Conrad is equally disturbed by this thought, and, ends up by sleeping with Milly. What an irony it is that brother whom he loves, he betrays by seducing his brother?s wife. His surrender to passion fills him with the terror of living. He becomes the battlefield of conflicting impulses.
The struggle to find a justification for suffering is the quest lies at the heart of the novel. The conflict is between what a person wants to be and what he is. But since one has to cope not only with the force of events but also the man with in, a second choice always presents itself with a satanic guile. The question is not that who are the helpless citizens of the fallen world. The question is why the world is fallen? Why the citizens are helpless? The question is what are the consequences of dilemma from which a person undergoes? The question is how to live and therefore common man is divided within and against himself. The question is that of battle which we fight in ignorance? The whole system of society is imbalanced which Graham Greene presented in the novel.

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