Knight

The values of values like loyalty, courtesy, generosity were widely adapted as a secular chivalric code that was applied to the King Arthur’s knights. Over the course of the authorship of his Arthurian romances, Chretien’s opinion of secular chivalry changed and he began to critique the system more and more blatantly. Chretien wrote during the High Middle Ages, where a newfound focus on commercial value and Christianity was taking a much stronger hold in broader communities. Adoption of…

Joker in The Dark Knight and Jack Merridew in The Lord of the Flies desire the power to push entire society into corruption of madness and anarchy by their successful leading skills. They trap people using violence and trickery and diffuse their responsibilities to someone else. The Joker and Jack don’t have any humanizing elements; instead, they attempt to destroy humanized society. They, the shadows confront with protagonists and natural humanity to officialize their ideology. The Joker and…

I agree with Roger Ebert's review on the “The Dark Knight”. The only thing I don’t agree with is the four star rating. This is because the movie had phenomenal acting, beautiful visual and special effects and an incredible script that was written by the director himself Christopher Nolan. This is why I don’t agree with the 4 star rating. In my opinion it should be 5. Throughout the review Roger talks about Heath Ledger does a great Job playing the Joker and telling his side of things. Roger…

The ferry scene in the movie, The Dark Knight, also presented another ethical problem: the Prisoner Dilemma (Mlawski 1). To sum it all up, two boats are in the water and each boat has until midnight to detonate the other ships ordinance or both ferries will be destroyed. There are civilians in one boat and prisoners in the other boat. Each boat has to make a choice – kill or be killed – confess or stay quiet. Not to mention that the clock is ticking. Of course, neither the civilian boat nor the…

Ideological Analysis of The Dark Knight Rises The 2012 film, The Dark Knight Rises is the third installment of the Batman trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan. The film is a portrayal of the constant battle between good and evil, and does so through the representation of our justice system. The lines between good and evil are hard to distinguish, however due to the police force in Gotham being as well known for its corruption, as it is for its actual crime fighting, and the Villains of the…

The Different Representations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a storytelling that belongs to the Middle Ages and the Arthurian tradition. “the romance, like its literary descendant, was often used by writers from the twelfth century on to state in various ways some of the issues that then seemed currently important” (Silverstein 260). This type of literature introduces the romance through the courtly love and the chivalry. The story is based on motifs from…

For this essay, I have decided to compare two “bad guys” that audiences always seem to love. One is your classic high school rebel in The Breakfast Club, while the other is Batman’s favorite villian in The Dark Knight. Judd Nelson and Heath Ledger share many similarities in their roles as John and the Joker, however I think the biggest difference between the two actors is the amount of intensity put into their characters. John is a troubled young man, who seems to be mad at the world. Judd…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the tale of King Arthur’s knight and nephew, Gawain, and his quest to fulfill a challenge that is proposed to him by a mysterious stranger known as the Green Knight. On his way to find the Green Knight, Gawain unknowingly receives various moral tests given to him by a lord named Bertilak, who offers Gawain a place to stay in his castle during his travels. The Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poem was written in the late 14th-century. Although the poem is a…

The 14th century Arthurian romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” opens with a description of the fall of Troy and subsequent founding of Rome and Britain, introducing an idea the author revisits numerous times: the necessity of destruction to growth, death to life. The poem could, itself, be said to follow an overarching life cycle; it begins and ends in matching references to Brutus and is propelled by stanzas that feel cyclic in their rhyming five line closes. To be less abstract, however…

I finally got to sit down and read Batman: White Knight. From the moment I heard the premise, I wanted to read it. The idea of joker becoming sane and working with the police to stop Batman seems like a fun idea but after reading the first issue I am not going to lie I found it a bit disappointing. I was hoping it would essentially be the standard Batman world, Batman is a vigilante that although pushes limits are overall still rational and adhere to his own moral code and don't usually beat…