Kick Back

What is power? Power is having strength and being forceful, physically applying your strength to another individual. In order to become powerful, steps are always considered, you aren’t powerful with a blink of an eye, you have to start from scratch, being powerless. One of the fundamental expectations underlying this premise is the capacity or ability to direct or influence behaviour of others or the course of events. Power can be gained or lost. Both central protagonists from Frank Darabonts Shawshank Redemption and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 had lost power, though throughout their journey, they both gained hope in order to arise a powerful state of mind, in terms of power.
In Shawshank Redemption the central protagonist Is identified as Andy Dufresne. Andy was a well-educated man being a former vice president of large Portland bank. When Andy arrives to Shawshank prison, him and the prisoners are immediately ordered to do as Byran Hadley(lead guard) says, as Andy was walking into the prison, Red( Andys soon to be friend) states that ‘a stiff breeze would push him over’ which illustrates how Andy had no power what so ever at the time. Another technique used to show Andys powerlessness is the panning of the camera shot, where Andy looks up and sees that it’s the harsh building of the prison portraying to Andy that it is going to be a harsh journey ahead. From being vice president of a large bank to nothing but a convicted felon, he lost his individuality, being just a number. This shows how power can affect an individual, as Andy was someone important to a