The Dark Knight Batman Character Analysis

In Nolan 's The Dark Knight, the Joker disrupts the 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 when commissioner Gordon is too late to save her, 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 fascination with winged insects. She gets help from killer psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter, to stop Bill on her own, while he analyzes about her childhood and father’s death. Bodily mutilation in Dark Knight and flying insects in Lambs both indicate that someone who experiences a personal loss may be motivated to do good if they are able to overcome the grief it brings.
Harvey Dent is hospitalized after the explosion, and as his bandages are pulled off it is revealed that half of his face has been deeply …show more content…
Starling states that she was alone after her father 's death since her mother was not around indicating she had to get over what happened on her own. The cocoon signifies the entrapment she felt as a child being forced inside a cage of her own pain. However, like a moth, Clairece is able to break out from the cocoon of pain that once trapped her transforming her like a larva stuck on the ground to a moth that rises above all others. Without the process of grief that she went through because of her father 's death, it’s not clear if she would have taken the same path in life and thus may never have become such a motivated student. Claireces’ traumatic childhood is the catalyst that compels her to help others so they won 't go through the same pain that she once