After Dark

The Dark Knight, a film directed by the acclaimed Christopher Nolan, is a great piece of art on multiple levels. In most cases, these levels are understood and delved into deeper each time a person watches the movie. The first time, the movie offers a super-villain for the most well-known hero to defeat as well as the story of the transformation of a man from the city 's most promising District Attorney to the city 's most vengeful menace. The second time, since the explosions and action…

There are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. The first galaxies formed around 13.5 billion years ago after the big bang and the dark ages. NASA states that, “After the Big Bang, the Universe was composed of radiation and subatomic particles.” There are two theories about what happened next. The first theory is that small particles slowly team up and gradually form stars, star clusters, and eventually galaxies. The second theory states that the universe first…

cop and the joker in a dark room, the only light lighting up the room is the door light and the lamp right where they are sitting. While the cop is listening to the joker speak only half of his face is fully visible due to the lack of light in the room. It then switches to the joker talking and behind him is very dark, only perk of his face is slightly visible, everything else behind him is not. This adds suspense to the scene that something dark is happening. Right after that the whole room…

In the Christopher Nolan 2008 movie, The Dark Night, the audience and film analysis question if the character Batman is considered morally ambiguous. I believe he is morally ambiguous as his actions even out the scale of good and evil in the character. Tension is often within characters who are morally ambiguous as they question if their darker side will overcome the good and if it does, will this effect their quest for justice. These characters evoke sympathy in the audience as they deal with…

Comparison of “The Most Dangerous Game” and the “Young Goodman Brown” This essay will compare two short stories: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown and Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game. Works do not have similarities at the first sight. Stories are about a century apart (were published in 1835 and 1924 respectively), have different plots, types of characters and conclusions. However, it is possible to make a comparison and find both similarities and differences in these stories.…

Nolan’s Batman trilogy is one that has redefined comic-book movies. His second film The Dark Knight is one that goes deep into the origins and creates an outstanding tragedy. He creates characters that the viewers are drawn to and care much about. This was possible due to lead actors Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Michel Caine, Gary Oldman, and Morgan Freeman’s wonderful performances. After Batman Begins a new district attorney named Harvey Dent has been elected…

the painting be the focal point for the gothic elements, Wilde creates a major contrast between the painting and the rest of the novel. The setting and everything else in the novel is very familiar and almost boring compared to the painting, which is dark, twisted, wicked, and mysterious. I believe that Wilde had a purpose behind why he had the painting be so different from the rest of the novel. I believe that Wilde created this contrast to draw attention to the painting and the implications…

The Dark Knight is considered to be Christopher Nolan’s “magnum opus” of sorts. Boasting a thrilling plotline, intense action, and one of the most sinister antagonists of recent times, it has become a classic in film history. On the surface, we may see it as a popcorn flick, a blockbuster designed to entertain the masses, but at its core it is much more. Nolan’s work contains ethical questions that each and every one of us grapples with in our daily lives. The characterization of these people…

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante Alighieri writes himself as a traveler who is traversing through the realm of the underworld with the Roman poet Vergil as his guide. In documenting his journey, Dante continually references and encounters both fictional characters and historic figures from the Greek, Roman and Catholic canon. In doing so, he brings the characters and figures back to life, allowing him to rewrite them in his own context and perspective. By reviving these characters and melding the…

After reading The Odyssey Book 5-8, it came to my attention that the modern world of today and the classical myths of the past have somewhat different beliefs on what a trickster is all about. The current myth I am going to use come from the movie The Dark Knight(2008), where we are introduced to a trickster known as the Joker. The Joker is a villain who dresses up as a clown and commits crimes. In addition to being a villain he is also consider a criminal mastermind due to his ingenuity when it…