Archetypes In Batman, The Joke, Scarecrow, And Bane?

Since the 1940s, comic book readers have been entertained by stories of a mysterious caped crusader. Batman, the symbol of justice on the streets, prowls rooftops and alleys both thwarting common street thugs’ petty misconduct and sinister schemes of criminal masterminds with the same self-righteous zeal. Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is an epic, three-act saga that presents the rise and fall of this famous antihero. Archetypes, recurring symbolism found so often throughout literature that they have turned into tropes, are liberally scattered through Batman comics and movies. Symbolism is taken to its natural extreme in Nolan’s works of art. The movies of the Batman trilogy contain many archetypes in the form of characters such as Batman, The Joker, Scarecrow, and Bane.

Symbolism is an ingrained part of the world’s storytelling toolbox. The way our world views both narrative works and everyday events is in terms of these literary tropes. Batman is a hero operating outside the constraints of the law. A classic antihero, this ruthless vigilante does his best to protect innocent people by using methods such as

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The Joker in Nolan’s Batman movies is, above all, one thing: a master tempter. He has an eerie charisma that seems to attract as much as it repels. Most important, though is the fact that he is constantly trying to corrupt people, especially Batman. He attempts to get a ferry-load of innocents to sink a boat laden with criminals to save their own lives. He seems to say that chaos is the only truth in life, and destruction the universe 's only reality. The Joker’s game is lies and chaos, and time and time again he comes up with all four aces. His silver-tongued, tempting whisper of chaos is the nemesis to Batman’s single-minded quest to make the world an orderly, safe