Bruce Dawe

know that anyone could be hero. You don't need powers to be a hero or succeed missions all you need to is your mind. Another heroic quality that Batman is he made sacrifices. In his trilogy, Bruce sacrifices his fame, his body his reputation, loses his loved ones his money. In the end, Batman dies but Bruce lives. Bruce’s life ties into the hero’s journey when he witnessed his parents death and fell into an abandoned back cave when he was young (Call to Adventure). Followed by that, he meets…

Scene: When the Joker crashes Harvey Dent’s fundraiser and targets Rachael Dawes because no one knows where Harvey is. The 360 degree turn of the camera emphasizes Rachel’s struggle to over power the Joker and his struggle to maintain it. The Joker has his knife at Rachel 's mouth to not only show his dominance to her but to how that while he looks silly dressed like a clown, he is serious. While he knows that the rich guests are not scared of him, a criminal, he does not try to instill the…

experiences affect how anyone views future, adult events. Bruce Wayne and Gilgamesh are no exception. Although it is not shown in The Dark Knight, it is no secret what happened to Wayne’s parents. As the three family members were coming back from a movie, a man approached the group with a gun. The mysterious man robbed the couple and then decided to shoot both his mother and father. The man spared Bruce and left him as he fled the scene. Bruce Wayne became Batman because of the murder. Once he…

in the action for a full symphony.” This is an example of enjambment as throughout the poem Dawe breaks the normal poetic rules and doesn’t put a full stop at the end. This is quite ironic as he breaks the English rules while demonstrating that modern society break the rules by not helping the less unfortunate. We may not want to or are ignorant and oblivious to what is happening in society. Lastly Dawe uses within the last stanza the powerful language technique of ellipses to grab the…

Through deliberate selection of the medium of production, composers are able to offer and emphasise their own perspectives on politics. This is evident in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian prose-fiction novel, Brave New World (1932), and Bruce Dawe’s poem, ‘Enter Without So Much as Knocking’ (1959). Both texts capture the composers’ own political ideologies and caution readers of governments that abuse technology to manufacture a consumeristic, groupthink culture. Composer’s criticise government bodies…

The many aspects of power within a novel effectively shape how readers interpret the composer’s distinctive message. A close study of Weapon’s Training by Bruce Dawe, Mother Who Gave Me Life by Glen Hardwood and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley would enable readers to understand how effectively the writer has conveyed aspects of power. Knowledge is a form of power that can lead in many paths and at times, control those who desire it. Similarly, the power to dehumanise an individual can result in…

In Homecoming by Bruce Dawe and Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, the two authors used a range of poetic devices to represent their messages and theme. Dulce Et Decorum Est message is about the authors time in the war and their experience with gas attacks during world war 1 where as Homecoming is about bringing the dead soldiers home from Vietnam war. The two poems have the same overall anti-war message presenting that the idea of war is waste. Both Authors have used some similar as well as…

boy scout like Superman. He is willing to get down and dirty to protect the people of fair Gotham, often brutal in his methods, but never forgetting the value of a human life. Batman Begins tells the action packed tale of the trials and tribulations Bruce Wayne endures on the path to becoming the hero that Gotham City needs. It has something for everyone. Batman Begins speaks to all types of audiences with its veiled love story, amazing technology, and endearing characters. I would recommend it…

The movie Batman (1989) and The Dark Knight (2008) are incredibly interesting films of the batman series set of Gotham city. Gotham city creates a look of an ordinary city and at the same time a crime hotspot for evil undertakings. Tim Burton is the director of Batman while Christopher Nolan directed The Dark Knight. Both choreographers of the movies exhibit high levels of skilled work in film industry as evident in the use of brilliant visual style and good quality sound track for the audience.…

Hail; and Bruce Dawe, who has written a poem, Search and Destroy that expresses his protest and frustration at our human infested, machinery dominated and polluted environment. When we reflect on Murray’s free-verse poem, Spring Hail, we can see that he focuses on describing the unbreakable connection between humans and nature. In the poem he writes of a young boy on the cusp of…