For instance, both men are given social status over the soldier and the jailer through a number of visual devices.
A figure obsessed with power, the jailer derides the prisoner, repudiating her piety in an exercise of strength over both her and the gates to heaven which he controls.
A jailer cuffing his wrist to that of a prisoner for an hour or two is a matter of routine.
A jailer though who cuffs himself to his prisoner for thirty-six long years is himself no longer a free man.
People have to come to realise that the so-called liberators have become their jailers.
Medical and nursing staff detest having to be jailers one minute and nurses the next.
The fact is that fear and aggression on the part of the jailers mobilised violence on the part of the prisoner that understanding would never, never have provoked.
Intended as a prison, it had eight cells and a jailer's residence, all of which opened onto a central courtyard.
