Moral Relativism in the Dark Knight

The Joker has many unsettling characteristics about him. Such as his impulsivity, lack of remorse, and insanity. He is extremely out of touch with reality, after an accident in his early life, he totally lost his mind. He has no sense if reality, or remorse, making him a great fit for a supervillain. He had no clear reason to why he wants to cause chaos, no issues with anyone in Gotham, no grudge against anyone, he simply does it for

The Joker, is a purposeless criminal. He will destroy anything, or anyone who gets in his way, just to accomplish his goal, to break Batman's personal rules, to never kill or harm anyone, but to save Gotham City from danger and

The Joker has no alter ego. He walks around the way he is with his deformed face full of scars and in some versions, with his bright colored hair and bleached skin, always with that maniac, chilling laughter which always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. He has no personal agenda to all the brutality he inflicts, no thirst for revenge or materialistic goals made him reach this point. He lives to dismantle the codes the society lives by and all he hopes for is to rip apart the expected codes of morality, so the people can then be free of any faith, any belief of right or wrong. He creates situations for the people of his town

A literary convention is a specific pattern like a repetition of a word, phrase, character, or setting. They are recurring patterns in particular literary genres and are present in many novels, short stories, plays, and sonnets. There are many different literary conventions or tropes in the stories that we have read, but I am choosing to write about the film The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan. There are also many within the film, but the one that stuck out most to me was Jokers famous saying, “why so serious?”. When he says this his tone of voice is almost angry, or he may even sound mentally insane. There are two stories from where The Joker says that the saying “why so serious” originates from. The most notable one is that his father was a drunk and killed his mother. Then his father asks him “why so serious”, and decides he should have a smile, so he put a knife in his mouth and cut his face from ear to ear. This phrase and the way that he says it ends up making people of Gotham more scared then they maybe normally would be. The phrase could also mean that order will never be contained, that somehow someway chaos will always rise. I think that by the different stories about his scar, his actions throughout the film, and by his famous “why so serious?” phrase, Joker is a psychopath who is mentally deranged, yet maybe not insane, and somehow he is very intelligent. The phrase is something that occurs very frequently in the movie. It has also become a very popular saying

Throughout “The Dark Knight” by Christopher Nolan crime and deviance is seen throughout the film. Crime and deviance in The Dark Knight has two faces as society accepts crime for those whose are helping them and at the same time punishes those who are punished. Society in Gotham accepts crime when the Batman commits it to help for the betterment of society; however, crime is not accepted when it is committed by mob bosses, gangs, criminal cops, and most importantly through the joker. The forms of deviancy/crime which are seen throughout the film is the Labeling Approach, Human Rights Approach, and Human Diversity Approach.

It is believed that because of the conditions the Joker was raised in, it pushed him to his breaking point and caused him to be a psychopath because he did not receive the proper

And so, Joker starts to think, starts to obsess. " If Batman's insane, why wouldn't he kill people like any other madman? If he's insane, why doesn't he enjoy it? If Batman's insane, why isn't he more like me?"

He also states that chance is the only basis of justice. If chance can denounce all rules by simplifying everything down to a coin flip you remove the entire build up to the conclusion. If there is only a right and a wrong in all situation then all opinions are invalid and everything that could've been thought of the situation is invalid in the entire argument. Now as the Joker said, “The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules,” is a statement that could never be true. One can say that they live in a world without rules but by declaring that they follow no rules they are following the rule of using no rules.

Batman: The Killing Joker is one of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s most renowned works, famous for its interpretation and illustration of the infamous Joker’s origin, and the true nature of his character in relation to that of the Batman’s. The story revolves around the Joker, and his purpose to “prove a point” (Moore 21) to Batman and the world, his point being that “There is no different between [him] and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy” (Moore 45). His attempts to achieve this purpose develop to become two of the three climatic turns in the story, the first being the shooting and paralysis of Barbara Gordon, and the second consisting of her father, James Gordon, forcefully being taken onto

Relativism- is the idea that some element or aspect of experience or culture is relative to (or dependent on) some other element or aspect. Therefore, as Aristotle expressed it, things are what they are only relative to other things, and nothing is what it is simply in virtue of itself. (Basic Philosophy) Moral Relativism- is the position that moral or ethical propositions do not reflect objective and/or universal moral truths, but instead make claims relative to social, cultural, historical or personal circumstances. (Basic Philosophy) Relativism claims that ethics are relative to individuals, groups, cultures, and societies. Relativism resists universal norms and has different cultures and different codes. Some Eskimo Cultures believe men

There is no character who is really like no other in the world of comic book villains, and that character is the Joker. Which would be hard for a person to actually find a character who is deep and this disturbed in the world of comic book villains? The mind that originated him, Jerry Robinson, must have been a very twisted person, undoubtedly. The Joker represents a theory about existence that part of me believes that all people wish we could embrace in our own way. He is an outrageous character, the stuff he does to other people is the lowest of the lows. The Joker is also a fascinating character, with an interesting world view, which is why he is my favorite villain. He has so many characteristics that make him even more interesting, like his history, his character, and how is he portrayed.

It's not quite fair to say that the late Heath Ledger steals "The Dark Knight" from Christian Bale and the forces of (problematic) good, but, as the Joker, he is the movie's animating principle and anarchic spark - an unstoppable force colliding with the immovable objects of Batman and director

There are two main characters that the storyline revolves around, Batman and the Joker. Batman serves as the guardian of Gotham City. The Joker, however, stands as the villain who strives to create a world of chaos. Hobbes’ theory on state of nature says that society is the sole reason that humans act civilized. Hobbes’ believes in the “state of war,”, which is a way of life that is proven to be brutal and short. The Joker’s main goal is to prove that people have the natural capability to do evil. While he attempts to prove this throughout his many twisted plans, he is driven to eliminate the one thing that keeps Gotham City from turning hopeless and chaotic, Batman. Without its protector, Gotham City would soon turn to a “state of war.” Hobbes’ also says, “Fear makes natural man want to escape the

In terms of the morality system, killing is not moral; in the respective of natural system, we don’t have right to kill people despite any bad things they have done and while the Joker did bad things, “he is still a human being, and is thus deserving of at least a minimal level of respect and humanity,” (White and Arp 545). Even if all of us hate him, he is still a person, which means that we should not freely strip his right to live.

My first piece of evidence is from the Batman cartoon show which states “I'm crazy enough to take on Batman but not the IRS. No thank you.” This is a statement that shows how the Joker doesn’t take this seriously at all. In fact, neither Batman nor the Joker seems to be fighting for the right reasons. My second piece of evidence is a statement from the Joker saying “all it takes is one bad day”. This shows that the Joker is not attacking Batman for any reason except for his own satisfaction based on the evidence I have stated so far. My last and final piece of evidence is based on a quote from the Batman cartoon which says “madness is the energy exit you can just step outside and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened you can lock them away forever”. This is one of the best points made to show that the Joker does really have a good side to him. This is an uncommon thing to be seen but it shows getting bored, stressed or just overall knowing that there is no actual reason to keep on fighting Batman is maybe a reason not to fight. Now that you know my opinion on my second reason, know that my third and final reason will show that the Joker has no purpose in killing Batman and Batman has no real purpose in killing the Joker. They should just part ways once and for