Analysis Of Flashpoint: Batman-Knight Of Vengeance

Losing a loved one can cause you to lose your humanity. When a mother loses her son, it is especially difficult to be able to cope with the grief due to the intimate bond the two share. A mother carries her child in her stomach for an agonizing nine months but she suffers through it and the miracle of childbirth for the unconditional love she has developed for him.Once he is born the child is completely dependent on his mother for survival, she is the only one that can give him the ample amount of nutrients he needs found in her breast milk. The initial bond the two make is far more intimate than the one made between a father and his son, since the first type of love we can feel as a baby comes from our mothers. Now imagine that you are the mother of that child and you helplessly watch a man take the life of your precious baby, it is safe to say that it would be a …show more content…
The graphic comic is set in an alternative universe where instead of Thomas and Martha Wayne being killed and Bruce, their child using the traumatic childhood event to become the Batman, it is Bruce who is shot. With Bruce being shot, it is his father who uses the loss of his son to become The Batman. Martha is so overwhelmed with the loss of her son, she becomes insane and ultimately becomes Batman 's archenemy, The Joker. The two coped with the loss of Bruce in different ways but they both reinvented themselves to handle the grief. In Alexander and Locke 's Article "Why Rhetoric?" they explains how writers uses rhetoric devices such as appeals, audience, purpose, kairos, and exigence to help get a point across in literature. In volume three of the Flashpoint: Batman- Knight of Vengeance, Azzarello creates a scene where we can see the full extent of how the grief affects Martha with the use of pathos (emotion)and kairos(appropriate