“The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.” Henry Miller
Contrary to popular belief that it is a fine line that separates a prisoner from an inmate, I believe that there is a distinctive difference between being a prisoner and being an inmate. Taking into account the literary definition that a prisoner is an individual who “is legally committed to prison as a punishment for crimes they have committed”, I strongly disagree that a prisoner is merely limited to someone who is legally committed to prison. In this essay, I will explore and justify – with regards to the movie Frankenstein – how a prisoner is also an individual who is mentally imprisoned by the consequences of his or her actions.
