Plot in graham greene’s the heart of the matter : fictional dreams

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Over the whole world, people are interested in telling and understanding their dreams believing that, in depth, there is nothing meaningless.

For them, a dream unifies the body, mind, and spirit.

It provides an insight into the human self and a means for self-exploration.

It is a kind of a play on the stage of mind.

In Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter (henceforth HOM), major Scobie, akin to any ordinary person, sees dreams that show what goes on the stage of his mind.

This study is an attempt to investigate the plot in the fictional dreams of Greene’s HOM according to Freytag’s (1894) pyramid model and it is not concerned with the interpretation of dreams in terms of their symbolic reference.

It is, rather, an analysis and a study of the dreams’ plot development and its significance in relevance to the novel.

The study assumes that Freytag’s model is applicable to show that Greene’s HOM fictional dreams are dramatically plotted.

The study arrives at many conclusions concerning the model and the novel.