An individual's personal morality and their ability to act on their ethical responsibility may change when they experience a tragic loss, whether it be a person or an object. They could go through different mental stages of grief causing their moralities to turn opposite. A significant event can be defined as the loss of someone that an individual loves. Harvey Dent, in The Dark Knight, by Christopher Nolan, demonstrates the impact of personal morality on their ability to act to their ethical responsibility. With the lost if his loved one Rachel, as a result, this put an impact on Harvey's perspective causing his moralities to change. Harvey was loved unconditionally by the city and he was very looked up upon, he was known as the white knight of Gotham. Harvey locked criminals away through the processes laid out by the law and people of Gotham loved him for that. He is Gotham's hope to minimize the gang population throughout the city. He is an unknown hero in the city fighting the corrupt police department and the joker while trying to remain a righteous man. Dent is dating a beautiful girl named Rachel Dawes, protecting the …show more content…
During this time joker manipulates two cops into bringing dent and Dawes to different buildings in the city. There both of them are tied up with bombs and barrels of gasoline surrounding them, along with the radio that allows Harvey and Dent to communicate. Joker reveals the locations to Batman and the police during the investigation but switches the locations. Batman ended up saving Harvey instead of Rachel, as Harvey is screaming for Rachel the building explodes seconds after escaping the building. Her last words for Harvey were that it was ok for him to be saved instead of her. His face was half in gasoline, and which when the building explodes he loses half of his face, becoming two-face, switching his
The Joker has kidnapped Rachel and Harvey in two separate buildings strapped to a warehouse sized bomb. Batman has to decide between love and law, and he chooses to save Harvey, as Rachel dies in the timed explosion.
The Dark Knight Rises is a heroic movie. The movie entitles itself as an adventurous movie and is a part of a sequel. In the midst of Harvey Dent death, the Dent Act has granted the Gotham Police Department to give powers to remove planned crimes. Although, James Gordon was a part of the midst, his guilt has taken over. He writes a resignation letter telling the truth in detail about what happened. Bruce became the one to take the blame for Dents death and retires as Batman. The death of Racheal had taken a toll on him and he becomes isolated from society and within his own home. However, Bruce fingerprints become taken from Selina for a plan to take everything he have and the company. He brings Batman back to help stop the violent. On the
Couple years after the Batman Begins, chaos strikes once again in Gotham city. A mysterious masked clown, called himself the Joker, initiates chaos in the streets and in the criminal underworld. The Joker goal is to destroy Gotham and take down the city hero, Harvey Dent. Meanwhile, Batman is set to wipe out the crimes in Gotham for good, although, it is thwarted by the Joker, who forces Batman to cross the boundary between hero and vigilante. Pressuring Batman to break his only rule.
“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Harvey Dent. Harvey Dent, Gotham's new district attorney, has been elected and has a new agenda that torments to take down Gotham's crime. The appearance of the mischief keen known as Batman, has caused problems for Dent and his agenda. A new scandalous mastermind known only as "The Joker" has arrived and intends to take Gotham out from Harvey Dent's iron fist. The Joker junctures an exquisitely planned bank robbery and robs the Gotham mob blind. He uses this money to stage a series of abominable and strategic attacks against the city and its people. Each one carefully planned and aimed at Dent and Batman while causing the rest of the city to enter panic mode. The Joker has no rules, but Batman has
In this quote, the Joker is speaking to Batman. In this, he’s talking about Harvey Dent. The movie tells the audience that Harvey Dent is seen as the hero of Gotham city, that is why Joker characterizes him as “Gotham’s white knight.” The Joker convinced Harvey Dent to do evil because Harvey didn’t have anything to live for. He had one motive and that was because of his wife, who is now dead; therefore, it wasn’t difficult for the Joker to convince him to kill everyone that was to blame. Joker doesn’t care for anyone, but to cares only for himself. He also likes to see people suffer. Additionally, he tells Harvey to kill everyone that was held responsible for the death of his wife. As one can see, the Joker doesn’t have a moral code because
In our everyday lives we don't usually think about our ethical responsibility or moral desires, It is through adversity that we stop and consider these. These situations could be a difficult course to make or a situation that forces you to think and act fast. This can lead to a change in the relationship between a person's moral desires and ethical responsibility through the outcome of the adversity. This idea is explored in the Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan. Initially the relationship between Batman's ethical responsibility and moral desires one of conflict. Consequently, through the adversity caused by this conflict, his moral desires and ethical responsibility are united and strengthened. Accordingly, Batman is able to focus on what is right and ethically responsible rather than his own personal desires. In Christopher Nolan’s the Dark Knight, Batman represents how having moral desires and ethical responsibility in conflict leads to adversity and can also be unified by the same adversity, strengthening their resolve.
In a movie where good and evil are divided by a very thin line, the Dark Knight rises up to fight against injustice and corruption in Gotham City. An action sequel to the original Batman Begins, this installment is a lot darker filled with more explosion, twists, and suspense. For the first time, a comic has been integrated into the issues of the real world. With the help of District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant Gordon, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining mob members and clean the streets of Gotham for good. Their success is only short-lived when they encounter the Joker, a mysterious mastermind who is out to prove that nobility cannot hold in a world of anarchy.
In the film, "The Dark Knight" (2008), The Batman, also known as Bruce Wayne, finally feels that with the assistant of Lieutenant James Gordon and Harvey Dent, organized crime in Gotham City have gone down to an all-time low. Although when a new criminal going by the alias, The Joker, shows up causing madness throughout Gotham and revealing that even heroes can become villains. The Batman struggles in trying to stop the Joker from achieving his master plan but fails numerous times eventually leading to the death of Batman's love, Rachel Dawes, causing Batman's confrontation with the Joker to become personal. This pushes Batman to cross the road between hero and vigilante, in order to stop The Joker from playing out his psychological test and
In Nolan's The Dark Knight, the Joker disrupts order in Gotham City when he has district attorney, Harvey Dent, and his girlfriend Rachel set up to explosives. While being saved by Batman, and after realizing Rachel will die, half of Dent's body is ignited by the explosion, leaving him with horrific scars. This mutilation, combined with Rachel's murder, leads Dent to start causing chaos in Gotham. Another story of loss occurs in Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs when FBI initiate Clarice Starling begins working the case of Buffalo Bill, a homicidal maniac with a strange facination with winged insects. She gets help from killer psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter, to stop Bill on her own, while he analyzes about her childhood and fathers death.
Leaving the audience in a bit of confusion of what this scene is to represent. This theme of good vs evil is presented right away in the opening scene with Commissioner Gordan as he is speaking on the behalf of the fallen hero Harvey Dent. This is where its begins to blur and also a bit confusing, without previously watching the Dark Knight, one might be unaware of the truth behind Harvey Dent. He his presented as a hero in the opening scene with only the audience and few characters knowing the truth behind Harvey
In the movie there is a District Attorney, Harvey Dent who is a moral and caring man that after being grotesquely disfigured by Batman’s arch nemesis “The Joker”, becomes hateful, seeking vengeance on all the people he considers culpable for his tragedy. Even Batman, in his determination to catch the “Joker” begins to ignore his moral code and justify injustice.
Dent earned his heroic figure when he punches the mobster in the face during open court. Ironically, Batman shows himself as vulnerable when the dog bites him with his protective armor. This distinction between Dent and Batman’s vulnerability demonstrates that no one can be a true hero. In contrast with Batman, Dent’s heroism doesn’t involve the experience of loss, but heroic through the identification of goodness. However, his flipping coin that his father gave him introduces the possibly loss into his activities by producing his own luck.
Joker also succeeds at proving his point when he kills Harvey’s love Rachel Dawes. “Gotham City’s White Knight” ditches everything he ever stood for; nobility, order, and laws to murder five people and justifying their deaths with the flip of a coin. This alone symbolizes the Joker’s mission to show the civilized people they truly are. At the end of the film, when the people on ferries are contemplating killing the others, the “civilized people” start arguing that the incarcerated men are scum and deserve to be the ones who die. Lastly, the film ends by leaving the audience with the corruption of Harvey Dent leading to the cover up of the incident.
While the prior two texts focus of the social and political aspects of manipulation, a different more sinister theme of manipulation is expressed in ‘The Dark Knight’. Manipulation in this film feeds off another theme of human nature. This type of manipulation is somewhat more relevant in our day today because as a human we go through highs and lows which leave us vulnerable. During the film Harvey Dent’s fiance is brutally killed in the plot which left him with only half a face. The series of events which Dent struggled through left him vulnerable, just the right moment for The Joker to ‘influence’ him.
First of all who is Batman and what is Arkham. Batman is a hero, but the city consider him like a villain, in other words, people fears Batman because he looks like a bad guy. Now Arkham is a city where villains and the mafia are involved in all the parts of the city, the corruption dominates there. Some people has hope in Batman and in the GCPD (Gotham City Police Department). The only person that knows Batman was the Official uncharged of the department, because he saw what Batman do during the war against the Joker.