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Aldous Huxley and Film (review)

examines these characters in the complex of human relationships yet never neglects the priest figures who also function as norms, usually ineptly, within the narratives. Her approach, needless to say, works best in those novels in which the three levels of responsibility are clearly evident, as in The Heart of the Matter and The Honorary Consul, but her insights into the nature of the childless parent in all the fictions that she deals with are always challenging. In discussing The Heart of the Matter she accepts the notion that the novel's framework is necessarily religious and then explores Scobie's relationship to his dead daughter Caroline, to the childwoman Helen he grows to love, to the wife for whose welfare he feels responsible, to the children he compassionately tends once the torpedoed ship places them in his orbit. Erdinast-Vulcan is correct when she points out that in the love affairs portrayed in The Heart of the Matter and in other Greene novels, there is seldom any joy, that sadness is the chief emotion. Perhaps this sadness is occasioned by the hint of incest that these relationships suggest, for the woman is almost inevitably younger than her lover (even in such a light-hearted entertainment as Loser Takes All), the major exceptions, of course, being The End of the Affair and The Human Factor. In The Heart of the Matter the father-child relationship emerges forcefully once the journey to the interior sequence has occurred and lends poignancy to the tale of adventure Scobie concocts for the shipwrecked boy about the exploits of Bishop among the Bantus. Scobie becomes to Erdinast-Vulcan a tragic hero when Christ becomes for him "a real suffering being"; the character becomes a father on earth without a father in heaven to support him: "Scobie is a twentieth-century hero in that he has lost his metaphysical referenceÂ—there is no Father in Heaven who is the source of moral authority . . . Scobie's spiritual autonomy turns him into an exile, and paradoxically leads him back to the truest Christian ideal of altruistic love in defiance of the official dogma of its church." It is not possible, nor need it be, to agree with all of Erdinast-Vulcan's emphases. But they are clearly and forcefully presented. Hers is a useful and perceptive method of looking beyond the obvious into the intricacies of a predominantly religious vision. The study is also a blessed relief from the spate of recent works that are still introducing Greene to readers. He has certainly been around long enough to merit this kind of intensive analysis.