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story but in fact a story where you can hesitate to call a good guy at all. The people of Gotham are in turmoil and are calling Batman a vigilante and are blaming him for the deaths of cops and other important figures in the city. The Joker (Heath Ledger) is not just a mustache twirling villain. He’s a Trickster whose deeds are nefariously designed to pose moral dilemmas for his enemies. Gotham is under the process of recovering from the events of Batman Begins (the first film in the

When you think of psychology what is the the first name that comes to mind? My guess is that you thought of Sigmund Freud. Even though none of his theories of dreams or sexuality have any empirical evidence, he is still one of the most influential figures in all of philosophy. One of Freud’s ideas that does have substance is the idea that our minds are dynamic and contain both conscious and unconscious memories, thoughts, and desires. Freud labeled these phenomena the id, ego, and superego. While

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we are presented with a young man torn asunder after the sudden demise of his father. There is a point in the play where Hamlet vocalizes his feelings of displacement and loss within his world. The “To be, or not to be” monologue plunges the audience into the confused psyche of Hamlet, allowing us to empathize with Hamlet's existential crisis. This window into Hamlet’s dilemma strikes the audience, it is relatable in that we all face moments in our lives where we stand

ethical dilemma. 3. Understand how to describe a scene from the film The Dark Knight with concrete terms WHILE you explain your understanding of a school of ethics. For example: The final scene between Batman (Christian Bale) and the Joker (Heath Ledger) literally places the latter upside down so the viewer sees the character in a symbolic posture of seeing the world from a completely different perspective from Batman. Batman and the Joker come from opposing world and ethical views: Batman's “upright”

“Brokeback Mountain” and “Amelia’s body” illustrate the vast differences of men and women in the West. One, about privacy and hidden secrets, and the other where a whole town knows every detail of this woman’s life. Both show the difference each gender has in the West and how their circumstances and gender roles affected them. “Brokeback Mountain” is a consensual love story between two men who live married lives and even have children. A major difference between this and “Amelia’s Body” is the consensual

Imagine yourself in a secluded place with just you and the person you love. Being together seems thrilling and maybe even effortless. Adversely, for Jack and Ennis, the main characters in Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain” in The New Yorker, being together was nothing short of laborious. For example, both Jack and Ennis would lie to their wives about where they would go, in consistent efforts to continue meeting up to be together and have sex. Some of the remote places these encounters occurred

The Mountains is a play about a young man that returns home from the city to help his father in his work as a home doctor. The play opens with the young man by the name of Richard, or as his sister Laura calls him Dick. The two have a long conversation trying to catch up with one another after Dick has been gone to school for the past eight years (Wolfe 57). At one point the two go to talk about how the mountains kill the folk around them. How the mountains kill the folks around them is what pushes

Two boys kissing! Eww right? Reactions like these are one of the most controversial concerns in our society, especially when it comes to cowboy culture. American cowboy’s social construction won’t accept or tolerate such thing, mainly because of their macho type ways. In the book Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx challenges the view of normal cowboy culture with the two main characters, Jack and Ennis. Although Jack and Ennis see themselves and appear to be normal cowboys, Proulx describes them as

The Escapism and the Fragile Illusion When people talk about the movie Brokeback Mountain, the first impression associating with it must be the homosexuality of the lead characters. As a phenomenal and controversial movie in 2005, it is an adoption of Annie Proulx’s short story about the forbidden love between two cowboys Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist under the background of the conservative Wyoming in the 1960s. However, the Brokeback Mountain discusses concepts beyond romance, as Ang Lee, the director

SHOT 17 15 Seconds Alone Again This long shot is the second longest of the scene. It is also the last time Ennis and Jack are completely alone before going up Brokeback Mountain. Since Joe’s arrival, all the shots have been four seconds or less with lots of large, quick movement such as his car arriving and his walk around the car. This contrasts to before Joe’s arrival, which include longer shots with smaller movements as Jack and Ennis are alone and looking at one and other. The camera faces