Every day, a person hopes for certain things to make their life better. In the film The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, revolves the setting in Shawshank prison and explores the daily life of prisoners. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbin) and Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) are two main prisoners that have a strong friendship. They works together, hopefully, to redeem their freedom. These two important characters, including Brooks Diamond (James Whitmore) contribute a huge illustration that connects to the major theme of the film. The director utilizes the work of symbolism, comparison, and filming technique to convey a deep message to the audience that hope can free a man, but fear can kill and keep the man away from what
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The compass represents challenges and exploration of the outside world, another symbolism Darabont employed. The gun would bring Red back to prison, a coward decision and mistake that he might regret. However, he decided to choose the compass and follows the same path as Andy choses. The scene illustrates Red’s huge determination to take the challenge and transformation. Normally, it will take an individual’s full willingness to try something foreign that they haven’t done before. Sometimes, the choices that one have a made, with a hope of a better change, is not a right choice. However, it is not always a bad thing to change at all, they just need to be careful of what why chose and wanted to be. A transformation with strong hope can leads an individual to a better of a better job, self, or …show more content…
The Shawshank Redemption showed a scene where Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore), an old prison librarian, suicide because he could not adjust life of the outside. The scene illustrates an act of an exhausted individual that gives up on the thought of hardship. When one faces an obstacle in life, they would tend to run away from the path to that hardship. What they Brooks never knows is that, maybe if he can just endure it a little more to make time to cope with the life of the outside world, to make friends, things would not be bad as it seems to be. Then at least, his death will not be so shameful, an act of a scared coward. Hope is not dangerous, it is the weakling that does not dare to hope due to fear kills
The compass represents challenges and exploration of the outside world, another symbolism Darabont employed. The gun would bring Red back to prison, a coward decision and mistake that he might regret. However, he decided to choose the compass and follows the same path as Andy choses. The scene illustrates Red’s huge determination to take the challenge and transformation. Normally, it will take an individual’s full willingness to try something foreign that they haven’t done before. Sometimes, the choices that one have a made, with a hope of a better change, is not a right choice. However, it is not always a bad thing to change at all, they just need to be careful of what why chose and wanted to be. A transformation with strong hope can leads an individual to a better of a better job, self, or …show more content…
The Shawshank Redemption showed a scene where Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore), an old prison librarian, suicide because he could not adjust life of the outside. The scene illustrates an act of an exhausted individual that gives up on the thought of hardship. When one faces an obstacle in life, they would tend to run away from the path to that hardship. What they Brooks never knows is that, maybe if he can just endure it a little more to make time to cope with the life of the outside world, to make friends, things would not be bad as it seems to be. Then at least, his death will not be so shameful, an act of a scared coward. Hope is not dangerous, it is the weakling that does not dare to hope due to fear kills