Dark side

The Joker is to blame for Harvey Dent’s turn to evil in Christopher Nolan’s, The Dark Knight. The Joker targets Coleman Reese, an employee of Bruce Wayne who is about to expose the secret identity of Batman, threatening to blow up a hospital if Reese is not dead within the hour. Amid the chaos, police evacuate hospitals in the city. The Joker disguises himself and gains access to Harvey Dent’s hospital room, leaving them alone in the evacuated hospital. After the Joker unties Harvey’s wrists…

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. Batman and The Dark…

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…

Albert Huang Mr. Robbins Period 5 3/14/15 Strength of the idea In the conversation defining the all-time greatest director in the movie industry, several names, may never be absent. Among those that legend isn’t a powerful enough word to describe their merits, one name has appeared like the transit of Venus. It’s never as magnificent as the darkness of an eclipse, but has attracted countless followers with its distinctive glamour. It’s always close by the orbit of our lives, but yet so far away…

Gothic Literature’s Evolution Gothicism is a genre of literature that uses different elements that are seen as dark and evil. But, the genre has evolved since its first introduction as a dark and evil style to the present mysterious style. Many of the elements that gothic stories include use malicious acts, while others can show the unknown or supernatural side of literature. The style is not for all writers, however those able to express their gothic stories clearly went on to become some of…

Medieval ages, also referred to as the dark ages, started from the 5th century and ended in the 15th century. During this period, in regards to literature, there were many stories with a “dark” background; hence the idea of the Dark Ages. Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno” written in the 13th century and Giovanni Boccaccio’s “Decameron,” written in the 14th century both contribute to this idea. Both stories were written in what is called Macaronic language, a language made up of slang words given Latin…

Dark matter leaves astronomers and physicists baffled as to what it possibly could be. Scientists design experiments to attempt to figure out what it is, but no one truly knows what composes dark matter. Physicists are so interested in understanding dark matter because it accounts for the formation of the Universe, as observable through studying the distribution of gravity within galaxies (Carnegie). Original attempts at studying dark matter referred to dark matter as baryonic, which is a word…

When an individual mentions the term “gothic,” the first word that come to the minds of most people is evil, mysterious, or dark. However, the term “gothic” was created in 1610 from late Latin Gothicus to mean “Germanic.” The goths were the ancient Germanic people; hence, its use in the 1640s as a term for the art style that emerged in northern Europe in the Middle Ages has nothing to do with the historical Goths and it was originally applied in scorn by Italian architects of the Renaissance.…

life the darker side of tragedies by creating an atmosphere of horror and suspense as well as embodying supernatural affairs to the plot. Gothic fiction also considers the motif of the inevitability of fate. Horace Walpole surfaced this style of fiction in the mid 1700s with the novel, The Castle of Otranto. His story concerns all the elements that constitute Gothic literature. The term originated as an expression criticizing the art and architecture of the time, which was decaying, dark, and…

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Dark Romanticism Nathaniel Hawthorne, being a Dark Romantic, writes about the darker sides of human nature. He is not afraid to expose the side not frequently seen by the public. Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the human psyche of narcissism, leading to the revelation of nature's superiority over science in "The Birthmark". He also utilizes the human psyche of guilt and fear which, in The Scarlet Letter, leads to self-destruction. Vanity can cause oneself to believe they…