How Does Society Avoid Villains Ruin The World?
Kevin Chen
Vy100
Professor Thrope
12.13.2014
What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes You Stranger I used to be a great superhero fan in my childhood. I had a huge collection of superhero comics and remembered details of all of them by heart. From my view, superheros were born to fight for justice while villains were created evil. Therefore I was once quite confused with a silly question: why were people so foolish that they allowed villains to grow up since they were born to ruin the world?
I took my question to my father, who gave me a quite simple but rather confusing answer, which was “No bad guy is born to be bad. No one chooses to be bad. They are forced to be so.” As young as I was, I had no idea who forced villains to fall. Years later, when I was no longer a superhero fan, I happened to read the Batman series again. This time I did recognize …show more content…
In fact, the society’s defects stem from the defects inherent in human nature. Villains are products of humankind’s born defects and they enlarge the dark side of human nature and bring it to broad daylight. We learn from the tragedy of villains how a society’s defects hurt a person so much so that they turn into villains and indulge them in crimes. A line in Dark Knight is thought-provoking: “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see youself become the villain”(The Dark Knight). It claims that as long as the minority live, they are destinied to be the villain because the society will sacrifice them to meet the demands of the majority sooner or later. There is no way to escape. Back to my 16th birthday, Batman beat Joker at last but somehow I felt guilty and depressed. I admitted my guilt to be just one of the majority who created Joker and his thrilling smile. I could’t leave with a clear conscience. I guess nobody
Vy100
Professor Thrope
12.13.2014
What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes You Stranger I used to be a great superhero fan in my childhood. I had a huge collection of superhero comics and remembered details of all of them by heart. From my view, superheros were born to fight for justice while villains were created evil. Therefore I was once quite confused with a silly question: why were people so foolish that they allowed villains to grow up since they were born to ruin the world?
I took my question to my father, who gave me a quite simple but rather confusing answer, which was “No bad guy is born to be bad. No one chooses to be bad. They are forced to be so.” As young as I was, I had no idea who forced villains to fall. Years later, when I was no longer a superhero fan, I happened to read the Batman series again. This time I did recognize …show more content…
In fact, the society’s defects stem from the defects inherent in human nature. Villains are products of humankind’s born defects and they enlarge the dark side of human nature and bring it to broad daylight. We learn from the tragedy of villains how a society’s defects hurt a person so much so that they turn into villains and indulge them in crimes. A line in Dark Knight is thought-provoking: “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see youself become the villain”(The Dark Knight). It claims that as long as the minority live, they are destinied to be the villain because the society will sacrifice them to meet the demands of the majority sooner or later. There is no way to escape. Back to my 16th birthday, Batman beat Joker at last but somehow I felt guilty and depressed. I admitted my guilt to be just one of the majority who created Joker and his thrilling smile. I could’t leave with a clear conscience. I guess nobody