Bruce Wayne Turning Points

The main conflicts in the world of The Dark Knight Returns revolve around escalating crime in Gotham city and forces of the authority attempting to control it. The authority should be a moral force and represent justice. The figures that represent the authority should be selfless and work only to promote the integrity of law and order. Authority proves to be contradictory in Miller’s novel as the authoritative figures express qualities of vigilantism and overall moral ambiguity.

The film opens with a young Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) playing with his childhood friend, Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes). In the course of a game, Bruce falls down a well where he is attacked by bats as they fly up and out of the well into the sky. Bruce is rescued by his kindly father, Thomas Wayne. Bruce begins having nightmares about bats, one night the Waynes went to a production of the opera Mefistofele, where Bruce is frightened by the portrayals of bat-like demons. After begging his dad, Bruce and the family exit into an alley where they were confronted by an armed mugger named Joe Chill, who shoots his dad and kills both Bruce parents, Thomas and Martha. Moments later, Bruce is comforted by James Gordon when Commissioner Gillian B.

The air smelled sharply of chemicals, and smoke. You can hear sirens from the GCPD cars. The sound blaring from being so close to them was reading to the point when I heard my being called I missed it.

From that point, it is when he begins the path of trials in his search for Utnapishtim, which requires passing through the darkness of Mount Mashu guarded by scorpion-men and eventually crossing the waters of death. The scorpion-men said to Gilgamesh: “It is impossible, Gilgamesh, nobody has passed through the mountain’s inaccessible tract.” This, in fact, shows the characteristics of courage, bravery, and superhuman strength that Gilgamesh acquires as a hero. Like Gilgamesh, Bruce also acquires those characteristics through his heroic quest. However, Bruce’s path is more traditional than Gilgamesh’s. At the beginning, Ra’s al Ghul’s training serve as trials that make Bruce stronger and more aware of what he is going to deal with in the outside. Later on, he experiences many adventures fighting crime in the streets of Gotham. Along the way, Bruce encounters a woman named Rachel Dawes, who is the assistant District Attorney and his child love, which he develops a relationship with. Rachel says to Bruce: “It’s not who you are underneath. It’s what you do that defines you.” Although, her intensions are to inspire Bruce to be good, she takes on the role of a temptress because every time Bruce is with her, it makes him want to give up the role of Batman. Thus, once can say that both Bruce and Gilgamesh are brave and strong heroes that are determined to achieve their goals and no obstacles will stop them from continuing their

At the age of seven, Bruce said that his greatest desire was to see his father, who was a soldier in Rhodesia. Since his father was in the army, he was never there for his son; as a consequence Bruce had trouble building relationships with those around him for the majority of his young adulthood. However, he experienced a drastic change in his forties, where he finally got married and had two children. This was the first time in his life that Bruce appeared to be genuinely happy and content. Bruce loved his children dearly and he “Just [wanted] to protect [his] kids from everything that could harm them”. He even sacrificed his dream to be an international cricket player to take care of them. Although he never actually got to build a relationship with his own father, he built a loving and supportive relationship with his own kids. Looking at how much he valued having a close relationship with his father at age seven was very reflective of how much he valued his family at age forty

Bruce Wayne Carmichael was born in the 1970’s, and grew up in Maryville. During this time African Americans, Native Americans, women, and many others fought for equality. He remembers this because his mother would always be home cooking or cleaning while his dad would work during the day. He remembers his mom giving him money to ride his bike to the grocery store or gas station to get food or gas and it used to cost 99 cents for gas and $1.00 for milk. Todays gas cost triple that amount, also food. Reading the newspapers really affected him and his family's thoughts on politics and what was going on in the world. Many people struggled because of the bad economy, people begged president Nixon to do something about it. It was the easiest and

At the end of Bruce’s stay at the temple he is required to execute a criminal and then lead a group of men against the people of Gotham, his home city. He is told Gotham is beyond saving and must be destroyed for it had become a breeding ground for criminals. He disagrees and deserts the league of shadows, destroying their temple in the process. Bruce is able to save Henri before he falls of a cliff and brings him to a mountain village to heal. He then returns home to Gotham determined to fight crime and save the city. That section concludes that threshold crossing and reinforces his mental change with an environmental one. Although the main

This may be due to the fact that he is trying to avenge his parents' death. During one of the episodes, there was a device that could show the deepest secret of a person and Bruce Wayne used this device. From this it was revealed that a major reason for him becoming Batman was because of the incident. Throughout many of the episodes, this theme appears many times.

Because he felt so guilty about killing his mentally ill father, over time Bruce successfully blocked the event out of his memory, only remembering his fantasy version, in which his father walked away unscathed (Rosenberg). As if his early childhood trauma was not enough, Bruce was then subjected to an explosion of radiation during a failed scientific experiment. While testing his gamma bomb, Bruce realized that a civilian had found a way onto the testing site where the bomb was to be detonated. Caring not for his own wellbeing, he threw the civilian into a bunker right before the bomb exploded, leaving himself exposed and causing him to become irradiated. The result trauma causes him to morph into an incredibly giant being with the power to lift one hundred tons when enraged, but during this state, Bruce has little control of his actions and has no recollection of his choices and

Vigilantes. People who take justice into their own hands.Though vigilantism is common in the annals of history, and the kingdom of literature/arts, there are few who truly define what it means to be a vigilante. Wilhelm Tauber and Bruce Wayne are two of those few. 16-year-old Wilhelm “Wilm” Tauber lives in Leipzig, Soviet-occupied East Germany, in 1947. Living with his bitter, unipedal accountant father who has a death wish, his hardworking mother, and his traumatised sister Anneliese, who was raped by four Schutzpolizei (Schupos). The Schupos’ reign of terror fuel Wilm’s hate for the status quo of the city. At night, with the help of his friends Karl, Georg and Ruth, Wilm humiliates his Soviet oppressors as the Marionette Wolverine. One night, he throws a live grenade in a barrack which he thought was empty, only to be met by the screams of the soldiers sleeping. Now a fugitive, he escapes to U.S occupied West Germany with his friends and sister. Meanwhile in Gotham, U.S.A, billionaire Bruce Wayne has taken up the mantle of Batman to cleanse his city of crime. He did so because about two decades ago, he witnessed a common thief kill his parents. Batman takes on criminals, both powerful and petty, with the hope that no child will see his/her parents slaughtered before him/her. With

Yet another form of therapy that is likely to be beneficial to Bruce Wayne is cognitive therapy. The goal of cognitive therapy is to work with the negative, or even covert, thoughts that an individual possesses so that they are replaced by healthier thoughts more in tune with reality. Several studies have found that cognitive therapy is the most effective therapy for a plethora of issues, including depression, anger, and anxiety (Hofmann, Asnaani, Vonk, Sawyer, & Fang, 2012). In the case of Bruce, he might possess distrust of others, and as a result of that, he might withdraw from society and break off any prior social interactions he once had. Because of this, it is vital to work with Bruce’s negative thoughts about how society truly is, and

Would Batman still be as effective if Bruce Wayne was not behind the mask? Batman could still be as effective if Bruce Wayne was not the man behind the mask. As long as whomever was the behind the mask had access to technology, be brave enough to face the criminals and the drive to want to make a difference within their city.

How has the Dc Comics superhero Batman changed over the past 70 years? How has design influenced the development of the various costumes for the character and how are Batman films reflecting darker forces within US Society? From Comic book Hero to national icon.

Batman is one of the many fictional superheroes which appears in the “American comic books” that is published by the DC comics. The character is a secret identity for Bruce Wayne, the only heir to Wayne Enterprises. Bruce Wayne swore an oath of vengeance when he witnessed the death of his parents;Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne (Diamond, 2015). Bat man combats criminals in Gotham: a fictional city, with assistance from various characters, for example, his butler Alfred and Gordon; Gotham city police commissioner. Unlike many of the superheroes characters, Batman possesses no powers .Bruce Wayne trained himself intellectually and physically .it is from dedication to training he possessed the useful traits of physical prowess, martial arts skills, detective skills and indomitable will to fight for justice. Though his motive is to combat crime and protect people of Gotham city from criminals, the justice system in most of the times views Batman as a villain and vigilante. He can inflict fear to Gotham city criminals thereby bringing calmness to the city. I identify myself with the Batman character through his selfless will for justice, his strong determination to do good

Batman’s violent actions in Frank’s Miller comic book demonstrated the darkness of his heroic personality. After ten year retirement, Batman became more troubled to Gotham City turning to a crime-ridden and a fugitive. According to Joseph Campbell words “everything begins with a story”. The beginning of Batman’s story started after the death of his parents. They were shot by some criminals because they were going to steal and hurt them. Having to experienced this horrible scene on his childhood, traumatized Batman