A Sociological Perspective On The Shawshank Redemption Movie

The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King is both a wonderful film and a brilliantly written short story. There are many themes represented in each form of The Shawshank Redemption. The one major theme that interests me in both the film and the story is freedom. Freedom serves a large purpose for both the story's writer and the filmmaker. Both use similar examples to signify freedom, not only in the jail, but also in a larger context about life. There are many events and examples in both the film and the short story that signifies the theme of freedom. The one main difference is when the film uses the director’s technique to portray a feel of freedom for the inmates. The overall three issues used in this essay are all linked to the

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The movie, The Shawshank Redemption (1994), is based on a character Andy Dufresne. Andy is a young and successful banker who is sent to Shawshank Prison for murdering his wife and her secret lover. His life is changed drastically upon being convicted and being sent to prison. He is sent to prison to serve a life term. Over the 20-years in prison, Andy retains optimism and eventually earns the respect of his fellow inmates. He becomes friends with Red, and they both comfort and empathize with each other while in prison. The story has a strong message of hope, spirit, determination, courage, and desire.

The area of the criminal justice system that is showcased in the Shawshank Redemption is the prison system. By following the story of the main character Andy, both the problems and realities of the system are highlighted. Throughout the film, the characters are portrayed in many ways. The most alarming ways that the prisoners in the film is as lower class citizens. By making this point, the writers are eluding to the fact that the system is corrupt because of the subculture that exist within it.

The intended purpose of correctional facilities is to to reform and punish individuals who have committed crimes. However, research suggests that prisons have had very little positive impact on these wrongdoers, and many have returned to the place they thought they would never go back to. In addition, there are prisoners who leave the system as dehumanized individuals, not knowing what to do with themselves after learning to be so reliant on the strict, rigid nature that is imposed by the guards and warden in prison. The film The Shawshank Redemption describes the life of Andy Dufresne, an individual who is wrongly convicted of murder and forced to commit crime while incarcerated. Although this film showed an individual who realizes his mistakes, in today's society, many criminals gain access to weapons and

Frank Darabont’s mysterious film “The Shawshank Redemption” is a deep meaningful representation of friendship within a prison. It shows us how hope can be reached in a dark and depressive place. Throughout the film Darabont uses different camera angles and lighting to help present the emotions of characters. The film is about a man called Andy and he is falsely accused of the murder of his wife and her lover. So he is sentenced to serve two life sentences in Shawshank prison, but he manages to escape by digging a hole from his cell to the sewage pipe which then leads him out of the prison.

After viewing the film The Shawshank Redemption and exploring the espoused values of the religion inside the prison, and how the leaders proclaimed to stand for certain beliefs but their actions counteracted that, then exposing a system of oppression. I was encouraged to think about groups that display a false sense of kindness but are manipulative in their actions. Gloriavale is a religious community in New Zealand that claims to stand for God and proclaim to be goodness and light. However they

This essay will be looking at the portrayal of injustice in the US prison system and the power of hope that can keep a person going through the hard times in the movie The Shawshank Redemption. This cinematic masterpiece is based on the Stephen King’s novella ‘Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption’ that was published in the collection Different Seasons from 1982. It is the story of a banker named Andy Dufresne who is sentenced to life in the Shawshank State Penitentiary after his wife and her lover were found dead, making him guilty in the eye of the system despite his innocence. We then follow his life in prison and all the obstacles he has to overcome from being assaulted from fellow inmates, to befriending Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding, and

It takes self- motive and a positive mindset with goals in order to be able to overcome life in prison. Several organizations have been able to successfully help inmates blend back into society and begin a new life again. It takes much patience and moral support from the ex-inmate and family or friends in order to be able to stay grounded. In “The Shawshank Redemption” Andy and Red have crossed many points regarding a prisoner’s life and the choices one must make to maintain a positive life in prison. It has also shared the bond and friendship Andy and Red built in prison.

The Shawshank Redemption is a movie of a man who is accused of killing his wife and her lover. The main character is imprisoned at Shawshank Prison and there, he suffers and undergoes hardships that he wouldn't have gone through, had they found out earlier that he was innocent the whole twenty years he had been imprisoned. He successfully escaped and managed to avenge for everything he had suffered through. To the people who had made him suffer, he left a departing gift.

Based on the 1982 Stephen King novella titled Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont’s film adaptation The Shawshank Redemption was released in 1994 and become a remarkable motion picture in the history of American cinema. The film tells the story of prison life, focusing on the mutual trust, friendship and growth prisoners experience together set against the intolerable hardship and despair of prison life. Moreover, the movie portrays the nearly twenty-year friendship between two imprisoned men, Andy Dufresne and Ellis “Red” Redding, and how their self-concepts gradually change and their behaviors adjust to life behind bars. In 1948, a young and well-off Boston banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) comes to Shawshank prison

For this journal (film: Shawshank Redemption), I would like to apply the concept Susan Elske discussed in SA 5 involving the different social cognitive models. One concept in particular I would like to include is the Schema Based Model of Affect. As explained by Else, a schema is a cognitive structure/memorial organization of thoughts, people, concepts (etc) that we are constantly using while processing new stimuli. Affect, or an emotional state, is stored within schemata and connected to categorization. Another concept discussed in this article was bottom up versus top down processing in which the former is a lay theory that we use and follow when processing new information (this lay theory consists of stereotypes, our theories, expectations) whereas the latter type of processing has the goal of restraining oneself from using those pre existing thoughts, beliefs, and ideas when encountering new stimuli (people, things, etc…).

Giovanni A. Camacho 02/16/2017 Psych In the movie Shawshank Redemption, psychological issues are shown through different characters that are dealing with their individual destiny for hope and freedom, each having a different outlook on life. As the main character, Andy Dufresne has a goal of finding his own identity, which is an individual’s self-concept, but also shows less of a bystander effect and even less of yield for informational influence for a person who has never been in jail and is about to do hard time for a crime he knows he did not commit. Within the prison of Shawshank by taking on different responsibilities and roles. Becoming a prison librarian, a financial advisor, and an educator, Andy begins to cope with the hardships of prison life and finds a place to fit in with his fellow inmates (ingroup).

In the Film Shawshank Redemption (1994) directed by Frank Darabont, Andy was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife and is shipped off to Shawshank prison. The prison is run by Warden Norton who is a corrupt leader. When Andy first arrives at the prison he is very timid and shy. As the film progresses, Andy breaks out of his shell and starts building relationships with Red and the other prisoners. Throughout the film we learn that Andy is an ex banker who Norton enlist to help him with his taxes and balancing the books. Soon enough Andy realizes that Norton was laundering money. The movie displays many of the concepts that we have learned throughout Organizational Behavior textbook written by Cohen Et Al. Throughout the paper I will be talking about how Shawshank Redemption relates to the concepts we have learned in the textbook specifically in chapter 8 and 10.

“Hope is a good thing. Maybe even the best of things and good things never die.” This statement articulated by character, Andy Defresne expresses dilemma in “The Shawshank Redemption” a film directed by Frank Darabont (1994) based on a short story wrote by Stephen King. The character Andy Defresne is erroneously convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. During the film, there is greed that overcomes those in power which leads to suffering for the innocent inside of Shawshank Prison. The tone of the prison is emanated by the Warden Norton who emphasizes his power with a hypocritical Christian moral structure. The inmates have accepted the habitual routine of corruption and regulation. With the use of music, cinematography, and narration, the film elucidates how patience and integrity are virtues that overcome injustice with endurance and sanguinity for salvation.