Analyse How the Text Influenced the Audience to Think Differently About an Idea or Issue Essay

"The Green Mile" is a movie that wrestles with serious controversy, with universal conflicts inherent in the human condition and with the dark side of human nature.

It is about good and evil; about the physical world and a spiritual world; about punishment and redemption; about how some people are basically good and others deeply bad. At bottom the film attempts to show that the struggle between Jehovah and Satan is ongoing, never resolved. As this struggle is reflected in everyday life, some people are depicted as being cruel and destructive, others kind and healing.

The audience is faced with the reality that sometimes innocent men are executed in the electric chair.

This motion picture is the strongest argument yet in recent movie history to dispense with the death penalty. Amongt the horrors of the execution scene were the witnesses, family and friends of the murdered girls, thirsting for revenge. An eye for an eye...

While it is true that our criminal justice system is imperfect, especially so when an innocent man is convicted or a guilty man acquitted, the offense is critically greater when an innocent is executed because of the irreversible finality of death.

unlikely chance that we achieve a perfectly just criminal justice system that has no clear disparate impact on people of any rage, gender, class, or creed.

I would resist the urge to take another person’s life, but I’m afraid that I wouldn’t, that the better angels of my nature would be decisively scattered and I would want what I now profess to abhor. Which I suppose is as good an argument for total abolition as any: if we can’t trust ourselves in moments of extremism, perhaps some tools should be taken away from us.

But they’re deeply unlikely to execute people who are not only innocent but honest-to-god saintly miracle workers who absolve them on the way to the electric chair, telling them, as John tells Paul, “You tell God the father it was a kindness you done.” But the movie...