tandards is the one who is willing to follow all the rules and submit to the oppression that the government offers. The outcasts are those that break free of those oppressive laws and regulations associated with society. The writer of Cool Hand Luke, like !
             many authors, seems to appreciate the outcasts rather than the blind followers. Also, he seems to depreciate society and authority the rules and regulations that they impose, and sees those who break free as heroic and worthy of praise. That's why Luke was such an important character in this story. Luke came into the prison camp with an attitude of survival and beating the system. It took him nearly no time at all to earn the respect of nearly all his other chain gang mates. Luke fought the system repeatedly and paid dearly for it, losing his life in the end. But Luke's death was not in vein; Luke was a martyr for the cause of revealing the weaknesses and shortcomings of the authority there in the prison camp.
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