Why Dexter Is A Serial Killer

     Dexter in the story started off as a very young boy who worked as a caddy at a golf course. There he met Miss Jones for the very first time. Judy Jones was a beautiful, young woman who came from a glittery family, but was also very cunning with her “preposterous smile” . Dexter was very

If you have ever been interested in the world of why serial killers kill, chances are you have done some research or even watched the insanely popular television show Dexter. “Dexter Morgan is a Forensics Expert, a loyal brother, boyfriend, and friend. That 's what he seems to be, but that 's not what he really is. Dexter Morgan is a Serial Killer that hunts the bad. (TV.com)” Dexter is a serial killer yet he works for the Miami Police Department in blood spatter forensics, because of his experience he is extremely good at his job. Dexter was adopted at a very young age, his adoptive father soon realized that Dexter was different, his father taught him

I believe we as a society are intrigued with shows like Dexter because they allow us a temporary escape from reality. A reality in which we witness injustices occur in our court systems such as a legal loop hole allowing a guilty person to essentially walk free and justice not being served for the victim. I will attempt to explain why these characters are thriving as pop culture icons.

A serial killer is traditional defined as the separate killings of three or more people by an individual over a certain period of time, usually with breaks between the murders. (Angela Pilson, p. 2, 2011) This definition has been accepted by both the police and academics and therefore provides a useful frame of reference (Kevin Haggerty, p.1, 2009). The paper will seek to provide the readers with an explanation of how serial killers came to be and how they are portrayed in the media.

As one studies other viewing and readings such as Silence of the Lambs, Dexter, Perfume, Natural Born Killers, True Blood, Dead until Dark, and The Walking Dead it can be found that both nature and nurture take a part in creating a serial killer. Dexter Morgan is a serial killer that developed a want to kill as a child. Growing up with a foster family he had all the love, nurture, and support of a normal child, but he had a missing part of him with the mystery of his dead mother. Harry, his foster father had recognized Dexter’s need to kill early in life and was able to teach him how to kill properly. Harry was smart in understanding there was no way to contain or stop Dexter’s desire to kill, but he

“I just know it’s a dark side of me. It kind of controls me. I personally think it’s- I know it’s not very Christian, but I actually think its demons within me” (Wenzl et al. 308). Dennis Rader, infamously known as BTK, commented about what he called his “factor X” above, which he claimed was his motive for killing. The demons within Rader supposedly caused him to murder four members from the Otero Family leaving the youngest daughter hanging in the basement nearly naked and gagged (Wenzl et al. 10). We now know that these demons within and “factor X” that Rader was referring to was his psychopathology, but we cannot ignore that these traits were triggered by early childhood experience. His early childhood experiences as in many other

The human brain is an amazing device. It controls everything we do. It controls our bodies, how we communicate, how we function. Our brains our

As William McIlvanney once said, “Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable”. Although it’s a bit harsh to say that police procedural shows are “lying” per se, it is unquestionable that a great deal of the information presented is aggrandized for the sake of entertainment. That being said, there is at least some truth to the more well-thought-out shows. In the case of Dexter, a show about a Miami forensic scientist who kills other serial killers, that truth comes in the form of Dexter Morgan. Dexter is the protagonist, a deeply disturbed man who is for the most part a chillingly accurate portrayal of the classic psychopath. Considering how accurate many aspects of his characterization are, discussing the differences between

He has a girlfriend, Rita, and a younger sister Debra. We learn that he was adopted as a child and it was his father that discovered he was a little different. By night Dexter is a serial murder who targets only other killers. The viewer learns about how he became to be a serial killer and develop his unique Code of morality by flashbacks in the episodes. This code that Dexter lives by where given to him threw his father.

This code of morals is what keeps him safe. The Code of Harry is what keeps Dexter’s actions valid and on the right side, and that is to only kill other people who kill. Although killing may seem as crime and morally wrong, but the show and its characters put a new perspective that make him seem more of a hero than a serial killer. These simple morals help Dexter deal with his personal life, family, and work, this relates to the theme and truth and his responses to his urges and problem to

In conclusion the desire for love and the desire for wealth is not always the key to happiness. In Dexter's case his desire or dream of love caused his nothing but misery and a broken heart.

The Dexter T.V. show is about a blood splatter pattern analyst for Miami Metro Police Department who also accompany of an undisclosed serial killer. Hunting down criminals who

Dexter idolizes those wealthy men and does everything possible to resemble rich men. For example, he asks the best tailor in America to make a suit for him. In sum, he becomes addicted to social prestige since he believes that happiness lies in it.

Where an episode of CSI leaves one with the feeling that ‘evil’ exists no matter what we do about it, Bones makes the case that there is also ‘good.’ Granted, truly happy endings are rare when it comes to murder investigations, but the victims depicted in Bones often find some sort of redemption at the end—even if it simply means their families learn what really happened to them.

Codes are another important aspect of this semiotic analysis. The main set of codes this episode deals with is between good and evil. These codes can also be viewed at times as paradigms because of the way the codes are setup. The idea of good versus evil is apparent in the battle Dexter wages against serial killers. Dexter sets out to kill those, such as the therapist, who are taking advantage of others, or who have actually murdered others as in previous episodes. This raises the question, might Dexter actually be a good person? Although he may only be murdering those who "deserve it," he is still committing one of the most gruesome crimes possible with no remorse. Dexter even describes