Shawshank Redemption Essay

Critical Analysis of Shawshank's Redemption

• The Unsteady text in the movie, paired with the old fashioned music help gave, it audience of when the film was shot. The music in the movie is such that it creates a tension in the scene. The music is in an atonal key, which fits perfectly and it doesn't seem positive nor negative.

• The simple white font on the background creates a serious and a formal tone. It introduces the actors in the film in a simple way. It is placed in the centre of the screen to catch the focal point of the viewers.

• In the movie, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), the protagonist, learns that only by freeing his soul from the self-torment of guilt over his wife's death can he free himself from the spatial and temporary exile of the Shawshank Prison.

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This is his way of seeking redemption.

• He's doing penance for his wife's death by educating the inmates, giving them hope and in that way mentally freeing them from the Warden.

• Andy even tutors inmate Tommy Williams , helping Tommy pass a high school equivalency test. The warden, Norton, stands in the way of all progress at the prison. He's a modern-day Medusa. Inmates cannot look at him or speak to him the wrong way without incurring his wrath. For instance, when Andy Dufresne, a banker who was imprisoned after being wrongly accused of the murder of his wife, finds out from Tommy that there is evidence of Andy's innocence and tells Norton about this, Norton refuses to listen.

• Using a few supplies from a fellow inmate named Red (Morgan Freeman), Andy escapes from the Shawshank Prison and exposes Warden Samuel Norton for money laundering. To avoid becoming an inmate there, Norton kills himself by shooting himself in the