The Theme of Hope in the Movie "Cool Hand Luke"

The movie Cool Hand Luke, written by Donn Pearce and directed by Stuart Rosenberg, is a movie about a chain gang in the earlier half of the twentieth century. The main character, Luke, played by Paul Newman, is a character who wants to be his own boss, and who is determined to escape from the road prison he is serving his two year sentence at. When Luke first arrives at the prison, nobody really takes a liking to him. It's only after Luke's constant disregard for the rules and regulations that he hates give his fellow inmates some form of hope for themselves. …