Obedience To Authority In Cool Hand Luke

After being incarcerated for a petty crime and sent to a chain-gang jail, Lucas Jackson (Paul Newman) has risen up the ranks of the establishment and become the prisoners’ idol as well as the guard’s enemy. Jacksons’s contrasting relationship with the guards and the prisoners is an important

In the film “Cool Hand Luke” Luke makes a bet that he can eat 50 eggs and all the other prisoners made put money on it that he can’t. When he won the bet he got money and as a result he got respect from the prisoners and also their money. At the end of the scene Luke is laying on the table like Jesus when he got crucified and the camera is zooming out to show he won and he got his confidence. By the camera zooming out in both films shows how Randle and luke had confidence.

Luke’s goal was to challenge the establishment (to which he seemed to think was unjust) and make an example of hope for his fellow men in that they wouldn’t have to bow down to Dragline. Interestingly enough, after this fight, Dragline becomes acquainted with Luke and becomes very friendly.

In just the course of A New Hope, Luke’s character changes immensely. The critical incident that sparks a change of his

In the film Cool Hand Luke, the director Stuart Rosenberg used many different techniques to make the main character, Luke Jackson ( Paul Newman) appear like a savior. This was a quick turn in the plot of the film considering the first scene that opens up with Luke intoxicated as he is carelessly removing the tops of parking meters. After this scene then the true theme of the movie begins to come into play. Soon after Luke removes the top of a parking meter, two police officers show up and arrest him. He ends up being put in a prison and sentenced to two years. As soon as Luke arrived at the prison he was looked down upon. This was until he showed everyone, prisoners and officers alike that he did not intend on allowing anyone to tell him what to do. The prisoners began to change their view of Luke as they looked up to him, but the officers grew more dislike for him because they

Most of his time at Sing Sing was consumed being in close contact with the inmates, in dining halls and housing galleries, doing strip searches, searching cells, writing disciplinary infraction reports, and confiscating inmate contraband. In addition, because they live in an enforced state of near powerlessness, answering to inmates who required support with a seemingly endless range of personal complications occupied much of Conover’s time. Conover’s account of the correctional officer’s role is consistent with those opinions offered by others who have firsthand experience of prison life. Virtually all serious, firsthand interpretations of correctional work define a gap between the training and the realism of the job, official policies and procedures that require routine avoidance, poor associations between line officers and administrators, and the undermining power of stress on professional conduct and personal life.

The Movie “Cool Hand Luke” is about a middle-aged man who gets put into prison after getting caught cutting off the heads of parking meters. You view his experience in the prison and how he refuses to conform to the standards held by the jail and the rest of the current prisoners. Unfortunately at the end, Luke ends up getting shot and killed. After viewing the movie “Cool Hand Luke” there were three main psychological themes that were very prevalent on the basis of the film. The three Psychological themes consisted of Obedience to Authority, Conformity, and Nonconformity meaning that it will be addressed how society affects the way individuals behave, think, and feel.

In the movie Cool Hand Luke, Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is arrested for cutting the heads off the town’s parking meters. His punishment seems extreme, as he is sentenced to two years on a chain gang at a Florida prison. Although Luke received several decorations in the war, including the silver star, he never rises above a private in the Army. This suggests perhaps he has a resentment for those in authority.

As a high-reward Luke could be free of the Empire and be able to be

The Guard s however showed what was termed the ‘Pathology of Power’ where the participants playing the roles of guards found huge pleasure and enjoyment in their execution of power and sometimes sadistic actions which would explain their willingness to work extra time for no pay and their genuine disappointment when the study ended. Punishments with little or no justification were applied with verbal assaults and in the case of some guards, aggressive physical action. The prison became dirty and inhospitable; bathroom rights became privileges, which could be, and frequently were, denied. Some prisoners were forced to clean toilets with bare hands. Moreover, prisoners endured forced nudity and even sexual humiliation. Experimenters said that approximately one-third of the guards exhibited genuine sadistic tendencies.

Luke’s mother passes away while he is in the prison camp. To rid him of the temptation escaping, Boss decides to let him spend a night in the box. Ironically, what was meant to rid Luke of temptation gave him the determination

The participants were being humiliated and degraded as a form of conditioning their behavior that influenced the prisoner’s attitudes. Obedience played a role when the prison guards where the authority figures giving direct commands to the

He is a rancher and champion bull rider. Luke has had an accident with a bull that left him with a life-threatening condition. He falls in love with Sophia even though they have very different lifestyles. After Ira dies, Luke is the one who is given the full collection of art after buying a piece that meant a lot to Ira.

Luke makes his way into a bar, he has no money, no i.d. and no plans for the future. However, he gets in easily; compulsion is apparently as easy as Michael made it look. There is dried blood on his shirt underneath the leather jacket he stole from a shop. His hair is beyond of the point of looking like he choose to have it that messy. Everything is a mess in his life, so he drinks until that doesn’t matter.

However, there was something missing from Luke's life, he wanted a good friend that he could spend his life with on the farm.