The Joker Character Analysis

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Character: The Joker (Heath Ledger)
Characteristics:
1. Psychopathic
The Joker in the movie Batman: The Dark Knight was dressed up like a clown and yet his purpose is not to make anyone laugh. It is everyone else that became Joker’s entertainment and there to make him laugh as he took over them. He has a permanent smile which is formed through the scar on his mouth and that makes him looked creepy. Joker too enjoys knowing how predictable everyone else’s action is and he’s there to create complete chaos.
Another example is Joker’s lack of self-preservation. When Joker visited Harvey in the hospital, he passes Harvey a gun, and then forcibly points it at his own head. Joker bravely gambles his life that Harvey would eventually adopt Joker’s …show more content…

Antisocial
The Joker too exhibits various symptoms of a person with antisocial personality. He blatantly disobeys laws and also the social norms far beyond standardized human behavior. The Joker’s cruel action is not driven by money and he complains that the usual criminals of the Gotham City are just seeking profit for themselves. Joker claims that the city deserves an even better class of criminal which is Joker himself.
When Joker does attempt to rule and take over Gotham City, he recruited mob henchmen from the people that opposed him before. Joker also appears to hold his own philosophy of chaos and describes himself as just an agent of anarchy during his talk to convince Harvey to give up on his own beliefs and then adopt Joker’s philosophy of anarchy. Thus Joker managed to prove that even the White Knight of Gotham City, Harvey Dent which had been the city’s symbol of justice can also sink deep down to a criminal’s level.
Joker also doesn't actually care and not focused at seeking profit, as proved by his action of setting up the money on fire. However, the money he stole from national bank during the early opening of the movie is used to make his own purple suit, acquire various equipment and dangerous weaponry, and then hire criminals to form a gang of him. But then the criminals hired were just simply used by Joker to take over the Gotham's infrastructure and in order cripple the mobs

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