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Shawshank Gets Busy Living The Shawshank Redemption is a timeless classic released in October 1994. The movies basis was taken from a Novella written by Stephen King. Notable cast includes Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, and Bob Gunton. Accused of murdering his wife and her lover Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two life sentences at Shawshank prison in 1947. After spending several months at Shawshank, Dufresne develops a friendship with Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) that…

crops will be bad. Your past actions will determine your future karma, one cannot commit wrongful actions and expect blessings in the future. The way you treat people and the choices you make will always come full circle. The movie The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, is themed around this. The characters Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) and Warden Samuel Norton…

Mercy Killing or Murder: Where Is The Line Drawn? In various situations, committing a crime can be seen as a necessary action to save a person’s life in the long run. In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Lennie Smalls and George Milton are two migrant workers who have been together since they can last remember. George took Lennie under his wing because of the mental problems Lennie has. While working on a ranch together, Lennie and George run into a very unique situation that neither of them…

Stephen King is the author of novels and short stories with creepy settings admits that he even fears bugs to add to the list of things that freaks him out. One of his earlier short stories happening 1976, several women at New Sharon Teachers' College fall victim to a “Jack the Ripper” style character with a mysterious fog that weighs heavy over the campus. King, the narrator, also a student, leads us on a twisted tale of a foggy New England town to search who committed the horrifying acts.…

In Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood, Capote follows the stories of both a murdered family, the Clutters, and their murderers, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith. Over the course of the novel, Capote reveals that Hickock and Smith met in prison and reconnected once they were both released (161). The pair’s target in invading the Clutter household was money in an alleged safe; murdering the Clutters would just ensure no witnesses could identify them as the killers (Capote 161). Eventually…

Arising the nineteenths century the English poet Lord Byron was the first model for a Byronic hero. He gains the status as a Byronic character throughout his life with the different characteristics due his personality. In general, a Byronic hero is a person who isolates either physically or emotionally from the world. Furthermore, a Byronic hero characterize himself for example as intelligent, arrogant and emotionally and intellectually tortured. A Byronic hero is also a person who just appears…

A Man Reborn They say that hell has several levels. I have no doubt in my mind that the Texas prison system is one of those levels. Jon Wayne Nobles went to prison plagued by his own demons, and what better way to exercise them than by joining the Dominican Order of Preachers? That must have worked for him too, because Nobles is even able to show compassion and learn forgiveness, which he shows Earle before being executed. I have no doubt in my mind that before Nobles dies, he was re-habilitated…

O Brother, Where Art Thou? was made in 2000 and is about three escaped prisoners on the hunt for some buried treasure. These men experience a great deal of adversity during their hunt including being returned to prison, a Ku Klux Klan mob, and a flood. Unlike many of the other films I have watched during the course of this class, this movie possessed a large amount of diegetic music. The type of music seemed to fit the movie well because of the comedic tone throughout. The first song heard in…

Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying: A Film Analysis on Shawshank Redemption According to Red life is pretty simple: “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.” Shawshank Redemption written by Stephen King and directed by Frank Darabont is a moving story about an innocent man in prison. The main character Andy is convicted of two counts of murder in 1947 and is sent to Shawshank State Penitentiary. While there Andy befriends a man named Red, and lands a…

The films The Count of Monte Cristo (CMC) and Shawshank Redemption (SSR) share the theme of a man who is unjustly imprisoned for a severe crime; however the two films are truly quite different. Between the films there are a few basic elements that contribute to the theme, such as; the crimes that the protagonists Edmond Dantès and Andy Dufresne are imprisoned for, what the two men wish to do when they escape prison, and the life that they lead after they gain their liberty.…