Shawshank Redemption: Andy Dufresne's Trial and Tribulations

Cold blooded murder is the accusation of the trial. Andy Dufresne, who is played by Tim Robbins, is charged with the murder of his cheating wife and tennis pro, Glenn Quentin. Andy is sent to the Shawshank prison, and is eventually friended by the character “Red,” aka Ellis Boyd Redding, a guy that could get items. Red is played by the well-known actor Morgan Freeman. Andy has asked for Red to retrieve a rock hammer for him, because he was a rock enthusiast. Dufresne is instantly liked by a large majority of the prison, maybe a tad too liked. He was beaten, hazed, and raped by a group known as the Sisters. Before Andy Dufresne was sentenced two life terms in prison, he was a successful banker.

Andy began doing the guards tax forms,

“Social Control are techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.” In Shawshank penitentiary the guards would heavily beat inmates if they stepped out of line. They would also confine a prisoner into the “hole.” No one desired the “hole,” because it was a tiny concrete cell with no outside light, and they only were served small rations to survive on. It is hard to have a social norm in prison, because after all, it is a place that is inhabited with juvenile adults. If something in a penitentiary could be considered normal it would be listening to the guards, obeying the warden, and keeping your head down. Andy Dufresne had most of these concepts. He developed a respectable relationship with the warden. Plus the warden (to his downfall) trusted Dufresne. By creating a regular routine, “social norm,” Andy was able to escape without being

The other inmates will even place bets on which new-b will wimp out on the first night. A stigma is a term used to describe the labels of society used to devalue members of a certain social group. In prison there is a group known as “the sisters” (the queers). They are the more feminine men who enjoy the contact of other men. Another example of a stigma is when Red is released from prison, and is put into a prison release program. He is instantly labeled as a felon, although, that was his old self. Red realizes that he no longer fits into the “social norm” and takes out to find his old pal