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The Dark Knight Character Analysis

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Appearing to be the most evil, deranged, and flat out psychotic killer of all villains in “The Dark Knight”, The Joker is the main antagonist of Batman. He is the complete opposite of Batman, in everything from appearance, to ideals. The Joker views murder as sport, and will not hesitate to toy with his food before he eats it, even if said food are the men he has hired to work for him. As intimidating as he is psychotic, in the movie he seems to struggle with an identity crises. Which would put him in Aristotle’s list of character types as a Vicious/Self-indulgent. The reason for that would be that in the movie he states that he is tired of just stealing money from other people he is in shear he of something more which would be toying with Batman as if he were a baby playing with its food. Therefore represents the fact that the joker used to know what was good and was wrong, but choose to do the wrong which made him Incontinent/Soft. Then again I feel like the joker didn't choose to become the way he is now, it was just his childhood that made him like that because in the book he keep on talking about his tormented childhood. He know has no morals for himself to the point where he doesn't care what he does and is now just knowing the bad, doing the bad, and having little or no regret which make him a Vicious person.
As for the jokers polar opposite the Batman I believe that it is the same situation as the joker for him, it was what happen in the Batman’s life that lead him

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