
Captivity Narrative
Andy Dufresne
The main character, Andy, is an innocent man locked up in a prison where he suffers unimaginable circumstances. He is raped and beaten by fellow prisoners and guards alike and is even taken advantage of by the warden of the prison himself. Those in power do all they can to ensure that Andy does not leave Shawshank Prison, but stays and does their bidding (as is shown in the clip).
While he is the captive, he is also the hero of his own story; as he plans out and accomplishes his own escape.
Institutionalization
"These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized."

Brooks 'Brooksy' Hatlen
Brooks Hatlen was a prisoner at Shawshank Prison for 50 years. The film shows him serving out the end of those 50 years and receiving parole. The viewers get to see his life post-prison... and it's not good. Brooks tries to live a normal life with a routine but he cannot seem to get used to it. The world is completely different then when he first got arrested and he's become much too institutionalized to do well in society. "The fact that industrialization changed all aspects of life in undeniable," the film shows how Brooks experienced being disconnected from industrialization since he was so secluded on the inside (Brandt and Clare 2018). He fears the world and no longer knows how to live in it; so he ends his life and signs his name on the wall like he would do in his prison cell.
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Brooks is also shown before his release, after just finding out that he was approved for parole, holding another main character at knife point. He is so deathly afraid to leave prison and face the outside world that he considers murdering his friend in order to stay, although he is known as being a kind and gentle man. Brooks even once found a baby bird and raised it until it could fly and survive on its own.
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Brooks is a prime example of what institutionalization can do to a person.
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