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    The Modern Medieval Hero

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    The Modern Medieval Hero The Modern Medieval Hero Bruce Wayne was only but a child when he watched helplessly as his parents were gunned down in front of him during a mugging in Gotham City. This crime would come to define his life. To the public, he would excel and succeed his father and become the heir and millionaire of the Wayne corporation. In secret, he would dedicate himself to becoming one of the world’s greatest weapons against crime—the Batman. Batman perfectly embodies

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    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

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    The 1960s live-action TV series was played for laughs, with a deadpan Adam West as Batman and nutty villains including Zsa Zsa Gabor as Minerva and Roddy McDowall as the Bookworm. The series also featured Yvonne Craig as Batgirl. Two decades later Batman was reinvigorated by the 1986 publication of Frank Miller's gloomy, acerbic graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns. Miller's work inspired a darkly popular Batman feature film, directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton as

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    important themes in the novel. Perhaps the most powerful symbol in the novel is found in the contrast between the rear and front entrances to Dr.Jekyll’s house this concludes knowing that the front discrites the nature of Jekyll by showing his public face, but in other words there always has to be a twist to it. There is also a back door showing his pure nature which is evil as now we found out that there is a mystery leading into the laboratory. He also uses different describing words to the way

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    was. Jack blinked, and when he opened his eyes again to his surprise there was no shadowy figure instead there was a man dressed in black. The man wore dark sunglasses, a black hat, a black T-shirt and trouser, and a black cape. Jack noticed that two of his teeth were longer than the rest but that did not matter right now, Jack was caught breaking into someone's house and he might be sentenced to juvenile prison. No, this could not be happening, the last thing Jack had in mind was to be sentenced

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    Two Sides of The Same Pin In the world of comic books, there are so much stories of comic book characters. Whether be it from a positive point of view, or a negative point of view. Whether it’s Spider-Man teaching us to not give up when going get bad. Or when Batman teaches it is ok to remember the past, as long you keep moving forward. The comic book genre offers many points of view, that sometimes they align themselves for the same common cause in different ways. Or sometimes the contrast each

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    In Nabokov’s 1955 novel, ‘Lolita’, the fictitious foreword, presented by the equally fictitious John Ray Jr., Ph.D., describes Humbert Humbert as a ‘shining example of moral leprosy’ (Nabokov 1955). However, throughout the novel, Humbert appears to manipulate numerous characters, most of all Dolores Haze and her infatuated mother through his alluring good looks and his sophisticated British manner. Similarly, in Wilde’s 1890 novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, Dorian, also a hideously immoral main

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    Christopher Nolan’s 2008 film, The Dark Knight, is the classic battle between Batman and villain. He takes on The Joker and Two-Face in this film to protect the people he loves and the city he loves. The Joker is in the custody of Gotham Police and this happens to be the first time The Joker and Batman meet, but at first the audience does not know that. Detective Gordon starts in the simplistic room only to take the handcuffs off of The Joker ‘s hand when he will not reveal where Harvey Dent is.

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    How Stevenson Depicts the Relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson wanted to gradually show the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde in his story. It does not state until the end of the story that they are in fact the same person, he instead leaves it for people to work out for themselves, with a brief explanation at the end of the book. For most of the story, nobody can explain their relationship, as they are never seen together. People are confused as to how

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    How does Robert Louis Stevenson create a notion of good and evil in the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published in 1886 and was written after a dream Robert Louis Stevenson had. The story is mainly a horror but has an element of mystery throughout it. It is a powerful story with a hidden philosophical outlook on life and society. The story has one main theme running through it and other smaller ones that can only be found by reading

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