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In his novel ‘The Green Mile’ Stephen King uses the dominant
discourse of power to reflect the attitudes and cultural beliefs of Southern USA in the 1930’s, while contrasting these beliefs to today’s society. The concept of power used in ‘The Green Mile’ illustrates that when it is abused the consequences that can and will transpire have a harmful effect on everyone involved.
The abuse of power intertwines with several different ideologies
in ‘The Green Mile’. Justice can be identified as the foremost
significant abuse of power in the novel. Those who had power positioned
themselves so that they could take full advantage of their situation, while those who did not have power couldn’t act without being disgraced in the process. The level of power one person possessed was determined by various reasons, from something as simple as religion to family history.
Stephen King clearly shows in the novel that the dominant reading
is that power is a way of life. Seventy years before the 1930’s, was
the time of King Cotton, where many families made their fortune and
gained respect and power from the community. The Detterick’s were a result
of this history and the judgement of John Coffey was swift because the
Detterick’s were considered to be well off. These well to do families
were also known in the eyes of the public to be a very religious
families, as the novel was set in 1930’s Louisiana, which was referred to as
the Bible belt. This area of America was known for their over reliance on
religion. Stephen King shows throughout ‘The Green Mile’ that the word
of people who have power is never questioned.
Lower and middle class people were powerless to change societal
concepts. Paul Edgecomb listened to Burt Hammersmith expose the racial
superiority in society, when he stereotyped and...
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