Similarly, in emphasizing the humanity of the inmates, their warders have been made to look, for the most part, pathetic, foolish or monstrous.
According to their ex-warder, "Mohamed was promising him forgiveness for what he had done.
Some warders have their teeth overlapping the tops of their shields, a curious biting gesture thought to identify them as "berserkers": Nordic warriors who went into battle in frenzied states that might have been induced by alcohol or Amanita muscaria, hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Throughout his career, he would be sharing his food with his police escort (after arrest in 1962), helping warders with their essays (also 1962), and earning the respect of their Robben Island counterparts by speaking to them in Afrikaans, which he studied assiduously.
They used to have a tradition: each warder would select a prisoner who was their "handy boy" who would carry their flask and their lunchbox.
Many British people have a snap of their younger self, posing next to a Yeoman Warder or Beefeater at the Tower of London.
All Yeoman Warders (and their families) live in the Tower so that warders may attend to duties at any time of the day or night.
Conditions in his prisons – where Pakistani guards received their orders from British warders – were said to be horrendous, with large numbers of inmates shackled together in darkened cells, without proper food or medical attention.
A new stone prison was built before 1905 next to the older wooden barracks, as well as housing for warders and their families.
Just as Un Chant d'Amour intercuts the warder's sexual fantasies with realistic scenes of the prisoners in their cells as well as one prisoner's daydream of a woodland erotic romp, each of the five novels juxtaposes two or three separate plots.
