The film about the ‘Psychology of Batman’
has different claims about the nature of Batman’s behavior and mental
capacities. One the claims are that the mind of Batman is not stable. According
to the ideas of the psychological experts, Batman was affected by the death of
his parents, which occurred when he was at a very tender age (Richards 10).
Consequently, he continually blames himself for their deaths and his sidekicks
are a sign of depression. The claims that the acts of Batman are because of
psychological effects of the past may not be the truth. Based on this claim, Batman
is expected to intervene in the situations that are similar to that of the
death of his parents. However, with reference to the Dark Night Film, we find
that Batman does intervene in a case where he is not affected and even offers
to kill rather than save life.
Psychologically, if Batman was affected
by the death of his parents and was mentally unstable, most of his acts may
have been revenge missions. However, this is not the case for Batman because
sometimes, he acts as the person who saves the vulnerable while in other cases,
he acts as the bad person. If batman was psychologically affected as the claims
assert, most of his acts may be aimed at revenging for the vulnerable and
protecting them. At some point, Batman lives as a free man from the happenings
in his childhood. It may be true that Batman’s acts are encouraged by the
happenings in his early life. However, there is little to attach to the
psychological attachment that is claimed by the psychologists.
Work Cited
Thomas, Sidney. "Batman
Unmasked The Psychology of The Dark Knight Documentary." Youtube. Youtube. June 1, 2015. Web.
April 15, 2016.
The Dark Knight. Dir. Christopher
Nolan. Perf. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart. 2008. Warner Bros., 2008.
Film.
Ahmad, I think that what you have pointed out as evidence as the psychologists being wrong on their claim is good and makes sense. Batman has been influenced by the death of his parents but I agree with you in hat he has grown out of only fighting for revenge and that now his decisions are rational and are driven out of fighting for what is right rather than because his parents died. His parents death is the driving event as to why he became Batman, but it is not why he continues to fight. I think Batman continues to fight because he feels as if he is the only one who can help protect Gotham. I think that Batman is a lot of things but I do not think that he is mentally unstable, just like you have said in your blog. Good work on finding a example of why the psychologist is wrong as well! Keep up the good work on your blogs!
ReplyDeleteAhmad, I believe this is a nice work again just like before. Your analysis is always clear and makes sense, a good job. You explained about Batman’s childhood and his acts, and you refuted the psychologists ’ idea that Batman’s actions were affected by the death of his parents. I agree with some of your opinion. I also believe that if a man was became a hero by his suffers, his actions should be revenge missions. It means when he faces some cases like his parents’ death, he maybe lose his intellects. However, Batman became Batman is actually have some reasons from his parents, I think the reason is he doesn’t want to see anyone else bear the pain.
ReplyDeleteAhmad, I find there are some issues here, I am not sure how you are proving Batman has a stable mind using the Dark Knight film. Batman also never offers to kill anyone. Last, where is the bibliographic entry for the (Richardson 10) citation? Any citation you have in the text has to have a corresponding bibliographic entry.
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