"What atttitudes does Graham Greene display towards traditional values and institutions we would normally respect in Travels with My Aunt?"

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 “What atttitudes does Graham Greene display towards traditional values and institutions we would normally respect in Travels with My Aunt?”

In this novel Greene continously mocks values and institutions we, or at least at that time woould have respected. All through the play there are things Green mocks. Some of these being law and order, religion, marriage and traditional morality.

This novel starts of with Henry, a very lonly but at the same time happy man. Henry is one of the few characters which Graham Greene show with a respectful attitude towards many things. He is respectuful and has no filthy vice. However, he happens to meet his Aunt Augusta and things start to change. Henry becomes highly influenced by Augusta which makes his personality change and envolves to be quite like her. I think Greene uses Augusta to mock most values. He mocks them by allowing the actual characters  to do the bad things so, in a way he manipulates us by our  sense of humor. I think Greene wants to show his attitude towards values using the characters in the book. We, the readers, find it funny how henry changes and the thing he does after meeting Augusta.Greene shows little respect to law and order. There are many examples i could use to prove this. The deals with the ashes shows what Green feels about the institutions. He potrays the police as being ``clumsy´´ and not keeping to what they say. As a result of this he makes Augusta show no respect about them and, in a way, flickes them.  

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An example of Henrys respect towards police is: “I lead them into the dinning room” . This quote is at the beggining of the play. However as the play progresses Henrys attitude changes. “Police business of course,  I said. What other business do you deal in?”. This quote shows that Henrys personality is changing, the respect and politness he had seems to have dissapered. Hawever Henry realises that hes attitude is being influenced by his aunt: “It was almost as though my aunt were speaking through me.”

As Green uses Augusta to mock most values he potrays her ...

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