The Joker Essay

There is a great resemblance between the character of the Joker,starred by Heath Ledger in the film, ‘The Dark Knight’ directed by Christopher Nolan, and Hamlet, a novel written by John Marsden. These characters play an in important role in their text as their acts shape our perspective on how they express the universal theme of revenge. Acts of revenge always have a beginning which then moves to further our understanding of the character of why they seek it as shown in these two texts.

The Joker, the mastermind behind the corruption of justice in Gotham city and nemesis of Batman. Nolan portrays the character of the Joker as uncategorised, mysterious and psychopathic. As the audience, we assume that Joker has experienced abuse and trauma

In the film, Joker explains to two different victims about his scars. It was a different story for each one, meaning that his childhood must have been abusive and rough leaving him scarred for life. Joker had no relationship with anyone as his he had no name and is only referred as Joker. In the Joker’s perspective, ‘revenge’ was not an intention. In the first crime of robbing the bank in the beginning that the Joker and the mob commit, it was a message to Gotham about the Joker which continued as a followup. He had no plans as he wanted to watch the world burn (Gotham City), “Do I look like someone with a plan?”-Joker. It was more of a matter that he didn’t care. In one of the last scenes, he was hanging off a building. His reaction? Laughing. He was also laughing when he was punched in the face. He enjoyed manipulating people and putting them into a state of frustration. In other words, he was a complete freak! In the scene where he was hanging off the building, it did not matter to him whether he would die or not as he thought he had won. After all he has destroyed Harvey Dent as well as Batman. In the scene when the Joker is behind bars, the camera slowly zooms to him. The