Institutionalised Brooks
Brooks is a hard core example of institutionalism.
He was sent to prison at a young age and lived his whole life behind bars. His attempt at attacking Heywood failed, and, as an old man, was released into a world in which he no longer understood. Brooks had become so regulated to the norms of prison life that he felt like an alien in the outside world. The Shawshank Redemption shows us how the prison experience can grow on someone until it becomes the only life one knows – until one becomes institutionalised. |
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