![]() ![]() But the other side to Sin is the teaching of Redemption. You can confess your sin and be truly sorry and then you will be forgiven and cleansed of all sin. Pinkie’s problem is that he only understands one side of this teaching, the Sin and the Punishment: he was born in hell and this is where he will always stay. The Original Sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden was directly against God, and set the pattern for all sins since then. Both have been raised Catholic (Greene was also a Catholic), a religion intimately acquainted with the concept of evil and, perhaps more importantly, Sin. This is where two of the protagonists, Pinkie and Rose come from. This civil unrest stems from Brighton's homegrown hell: its slums. ![]() But the excitement is all found in getting there, as many quickly realised that Brighton also had a significant dark side: huge crowds, drunks, beggars, pickpockets, razor gangs that roamed Brighton in the 1930s at the time of the book's setting. It’s most likely their only holiday break, it's relatively cheap, and it’s a short train journey from London. To the majority of tourists Graham Greene would have been writing for and about – especially poor Londoners – Brighton is, at first, a glimpse of heaven. Brighton has something for everyone: with vast numbers of attractions for the young and old rich and poor. ![]() Brighton is the perfect setting for a story about good and evil, as it captures a working class vision of both heaven and hell on Earth. Brighton Rock is the story of a struggle between good and evil. ![]()
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