How Is Batman Dynamic Or Dynamic
Batman and Robin are the original dynamic duo --- the epitome of a friendship. Batman (Bruce Wayne) and Robin (Dick Grayson), capitalize on each other's strengths and neutralize each other’s weaknesses to become what appears to be an inseparable and invincible team that fights against evil and protects the city of Gotham. Their relationship begins when Bruce Wayne adopts Dick Grayson as his legal ward to help him and provide guidance after the death of Grayson’s parents. Eventually, Grayson passes a “final exam” of killing gangster Joe Minette, to become Robin, and the two begin their journey as the dynamic duo fighting crimes. However, when Robin faces death, Batman takes control and does not allow him to go out and fight crime alone because
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he does not want to risk any further danger to Robin. To prove that he was capable of fighting alone, Robin began to team up with the Teen Titans. Ultimately, their professional partnership comes to an end when Dick Grayson decides to retire as Robin and create his own superhero identity with the Teen Titans as Nightwing (Batman). The control that Batman decided to take was the ultimate downfall of their partnership. Similarly, just as Batman and Robin have their own problems with their friendship, Othello and Iago of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, experience their own struggles that break the friendship that they appear to have. Throughout the play, Othello repeatedly refers to Iago as “honest Iago” showing the trust he places in Iago. However, their bond is ultimately broken by Iago’s jealousy which creates a determination to undermine the life of Othello. Another test of friendship can be seen between Jack and Ralph of William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies who begin as friends and end as enemies. In both Othello and The Lord of the Flies readers can see an imbalance of power between the two sets of friends. As well as an imbalance of power, both pairs of friends have one person who distinguishes himself over the other in their ideas, ambitions, motives and their control. To begin, in The Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack begin as friends and end as enemies.
Their transition from friends to enemies takes place between them as they interact while stranded on a deserted island. In the beginning of the novel, Jack and Ralph agree that they “ought to have a chief to decide things” on the island (22). Jack, a leader with experience, speaks with arrogance that he “ought to be chief” (22). However, after the group of boys vote on a leader, it is decided that Ralph is the chief and he has the power on the island. The power can be symbolized by the conch and because Ralph has the conch and can play it, he has the ultimate power. Throughout the novel, readers begin to see the imbalance of power between Jack and Ralph when Jack starts to use his power of the choir to contradict with Ralph’s power of group. For example, when Jack becomes frustrated about Ralph having the authority in the group, Jack decides to leave and create his own living space with the boys who want him to be the leader. Eventually, Ralph loses his control of Jack and can no longer be seen as the more powerful, although he continues to try. The separation of the two groups causes tension which ultimately leads to battles between them resulting in the death of Piggy, who had been a friend and supporter of Ralph throughout the entire novel. Clearly, the power of Ralph and the jealousy of Jake resulted in tension and separation amongst the group. Similarly, in Othello, Iago uses his manipulative skills to become more powerful than Othello. Initially, Othello has a greater amount of power because he is the general of the army of Venice. Othello uses his power to chose a lieutenant for the army and Iago believes that he is “worth no worse a place” (1) meaning that Othello shouldn’t consider choosing anyone other than Iago for the position. However, Othello does not choose Iago and that sparks Iago’s sense of revenge. Iago’s revenge begins when Othello proves his trust for Iago
by stating “my Desdemona must I leave to thee” (18). If Othello is willing to leave his wife with Iago, he clearly has trust for Iago. However, what Othello doesn’t know is that Iago truly “hates the Moor” (20) and believes that Othello has slept with his wife (20). So, Iago comes up with a plan to get revenge on Othello for this act that he never did and his plan is to convince Othello that Desdemona is cheating on him. Although Othello does not want to believe what Iago tells him, he begins to doubt the faithfulness of his wife and trust what Iago is telling him. For example, when Iago beings to convince Othello of Desdemona’s dishonesty, Othello does not want to believe it and he insists that he will “see before [he] doubts” (46). However, Othello begins to doubt and Iago begins to gain more power and authority over Othello. Ultimately, Othello loses all of his power when he discovers that Cassio and Bianca have his handkerchief which shows that Desdemona had been with Cassio even though it was only Iago who had obtained the handkerchief as part of his plan. Clearly, the authority that Othello has over Iago in the beginning of the play is lost by the end because of the elaborate plan that Iago comes up with. Othello loses his own control because of Iago and Othello, in turn, loses all authority and commits suicide. Next, in The Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack share passion and reason between them. In the novel, readers can see that Jack is more passionate in his ideas because he goes out and acts when he wants something done, while Ralph has more reason and logic in his ideas. To begin, Jack shows more passion in his ideas throughout because he doesn’t typically listen to Ralph’s commands. Rather he goes and acts on what he believes needs to be done on the island and he does what he believes every good leader needs to do; hunt. Jack is willing to go out and hunt and, eventually, his passion for hunting becomes an obsession. He becomes so focused on hunting that he is unable to fulfill the jobs that Ralph asks him to do, like maintaining the signal fire. Regardless of his fulfillment of Ralph’s order, he still shows his passion for hunting. Ultimately, his passion is shown when he confronts Ralph and says that he “is not a proper chief” and “he is a coward” (126) for not facing the dangers of the island and helping Jack with all of the jobs he has been given. In contrast, Ralph has more reason in his ideas. Ralph states that he has two goals for the group while they are on the island and those goals are “to have fun” and “to be rescued” (37). However, readers see that the only goal that he is focused on is being rescued and even though he has several ideas on how to be rescued, he never acts or does anything himself. Jack shows his frustration of Ralphs poor leadership by saying that “he just gives us orders and expects people to obey for nothing. (126)” An example of the orders that Ralph gives begins with the idea of “[making] smoke on top of the mountain” (38) as a smoke signal. However, he does not do anything to keep the fire going. Instead, he puts all of the responsibility of maintaining the fire on Jack and the hunters. Ralph has good intentions and he is logical with his ideas when it comes to being rescued, but he does not show any passion in his ideas because he does what is easiest for him and puts all of the responsibility on Jack. Similarly, in Othello, Iago and Othello share ambition and jealousy respectively. As previously mentioned, Iago’s ambition stems from the jealousy of not being chosen by Othello for the promotion and his ambition leads him to make Othello’s life miserable. In order to achieve his ambition, Iago gets the help and the money of Roderigo to carry out his plan flawlessly. Eventually, Iago convinces Othello that Desdemona has cheated on him which causes Othello to become angry and jealous of Michael Cassio, who is believed to have slept with Desdemona. Othello’s jealousy become fully exposed when he finds the handkerchief with Cassio. In fact, jealousy is Iago’s intention when he states “ I will in Cassio’s lodging lose this napkin, and let him find it” (50). Iago continues his lie by telling Othello that he overheard Cassio “mutter [his] affair” (52) with Desdemona. Just as any husband would, Othello gets jealous and he becomes obsessed with thinking about the handkerchief and how Cassio got a hold of it. Clearly, the jealousy in Othello takes over Othello and all of the jealousy stems from the ambition of Iago to make Othello miserable. In both The Lord of the Flies and Othello, readers can see a change that takes place between the two set of characters. The changes that occur between them have their reasons and motives including a desire for control, a hope of survival, jealousy, and trust. With Jack and Ralph, the reason for change between the two characters has to do with the control between the two and the different goals that they each have. On the island, there is no single person who has all of the power in the group and even though he has the title of a leader, Ralph does not act as one. Jack recognizes the weaknesses of Ralph as a leader and he tries to take control as the new authority figure on the island by having another election for a leader. When Jack tries to get the others to elect him as the new leader, there is no response and all that can be heard is a “deadly silence” (127). This response embarasses Jack because he realizes that he is not the leader that he thinks he is, but he still wants to have the power that Ralph does. The tension caused by the fight for control leads Ralph and Jack to lose focus on their goal of being rescued and become more focused on who reigns on the island. When it comes to Othello and Iago, their “friendship” ends quickly due to Iago’s motive of making Othello jealous. The reason why the relationship between them changes can be entirely blamed on Iago. Iago’s hatred for Othello is unreasonable and once again goes back to Othello not promoting him. Aside from not being promoted, Iago also “[suspects] the lusty Moor hath leaped into [his] seat” (28) meaning that Othello had an affair with Iago’s wife. Both the suspected affair and the promotion of Cassio sparks a desire for revenge within Iago and Othello is completely unaware of the elaborate prank that is happening to him. Clearly, the jealousy in Othello and the desire for power in The Lord of the Flies bring both of these friendships to an end. Finally, the terms “control” and “out of control” can be used to describe the connections that both pairs of friends share. For example, in The Lord of the Flies, the conch shell is a symbol of order because is it used to “call the others” that are on the island when they want to “have a meeting” (16). It can also be a symbol of control because any person who wants to speak must have the conch in hand to prevent “everybody talking at once” (33). Most of the time, Ralph has the conch because he is the leader of the island. Therefor, he has the control over the rest of the boys. He also shows his control by dictating orders to others. However, he begins to lose his control when Jack becomes hungry for power. Jack decides that he is a natural leader and he cannot be under the control of Ralph, so he leaves the group so that Ralph no longer has control over them. Jack’s ultimate control comes at the end of the novel when he attacks Ralph and the rest of the boys. Jack sets the jungle on fire to smoke Ralph out making it easier for Jack to attack them. Ralph is out of control in this situation because he does not have the hunting or self-defense skills that Jack has. Ironically, the fire that Jack creates to get Ralph out of the jungle is ultimately the reason why they are rescued, but it did not come from an order given by Ralph. Ralph begins the novel with the control and by the end, he is out of control because Jack wants to kill him. In Othello, Othello has control because he is General of the armies of Venice. He has the control of Iago’s future because he gets to choose whether or not to promote him. After he decides not to promote Iago, he slowly begins to lose control. Eventually, Othello cannot think of anything other than Desdemona and he begins to go insane thinking about her all the time. He gets to the point where he loses all of the control that he had of his life and he lets Iago control him through manipulative lies. Othello becomes crazed thinking of Desdemona cheating on him and he states the he “would most gladly have forgot it” but “it comes o’er [his] memory” (61). Othello can no longer control his own thoughts and the lie has taken over his life. Clearly, in Othello, Iago has the majority of the control in their relation because he is able to bring Othello into an obsessive state that eventually leads him to killing his own wife. From Batman and Robin, and Iago and Othello, to Jack and Ralph, friendships are always coming to an end. Some end peacefully and others end tragically and in the play Othello and the novel The Lord of the Flies, readers see two friendships end in tragedy. In both stories, the friends face an imbalance of power and that imbalance leads to jealousy, ambition, control, and authority that drive the friends apart. Eventually, the tension becomes too much for the friends to handle and they both lose all control of the situation. Even the strongest of friend, such as the dynamic duo, can be separated from an imbalance of power. In all friendships, there are imbalances and some are too much to overcome. Although we want to believe that all friendships are going to last a lifetime, in the end, even the strongest of friendships are not invincible.
he does not want to risk any further danger to Robin. To prove that he was capable of fighting alone, Robin began to team up with the Teen Titans. Ultimately, their professional partnership comes to an end when Dick Grayson decides to retire as Robin and create his own superhero identity with the Teen Titans as Nightwing (Batman). The control that Batman decided to take was the ultimate downfall of their partnership. Similarly, just as Batman and Robin have their own problems with their friendship, Othello and Iago of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, experience their own struggles that break the friendship that they appear to have. Throughout the play, Othello repeatedly refers to Iago as “honest Iago” showing the trust he places in Iago. However, their bond is ultimately broken by Iago’s jealousy which creates a determination to undermine the life of Othello. Another test of friendship can be seen between Jack and Ralph of William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies who begin as friends and end as enemies. In both Othello and The Lord of the Flies readers can see an imbalance of power between the two sets of friends. As well as an imbalance of power, both pairs of friends have one person who distinguishes himself over the other in their ideas, ambitions, motives and their control. To begin, in The Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack begin as friends and end as enemies.
Their transition from friends to enemies takes place between them as they interact while stranded on a deserted island. In the beginning of the novel, Jack and Ralph agree that they “ought to have a chief to decide things” on the island (22). Jack, a leader with experience, speaks with arrogance that he “ought to be chief” (22). However, after the group of boys vote on a leader, it is decided that Ralph is the chief and he has the power on the island. The power can be symbolized by the conch and because Ralph has the conch and can play it, he has the ultimate power. Throughout the novel, readers begin to see the imbalance of power between Jack and Ralph when Jack starts to use his power of the choir to contradict with Ralph’s power of group. For example, when Jack becomes frustrated about Ralph having the authority in the group, Jack decides to leave and create his own living space with the boys who want him to be the leader. Eventually, Ralph loses his control of Jack and can no longer be seen as the more powerful, although he continues to try. The separation of the two groups causes tension which ultimately leads to battles between them resulting in the death of Piggy, who had been a friend and supporter of Ralph throughout the entire novel. Clearly, the power of Ralph and the jealousy of Jake resulted in tension and separation amongst the group. Similarly, in Othello, Iago uses his manipulative skills to become more powerful than Othello. Initially, Othello has a greater amount of power because he is the general of the army of Venice. Othello uses his power to chose a lieutenant for the army and Iago believes that he is “worth no worse a place” (1) meaning that Othello shouldn’t consider choosing anyone other than Iago for the position. However, Othello does not choose Iago and that sparks Iago’s sense of revenge. Iago’s revenge begins when Othello proves his trust for Iago
by stating “my Desdemona must I leave to thee” (18). If Othello is willing to leave his wife with Iago, he clearly has trust for Iago. However, what Othello doesn’t know is that Iago truly “hates the Moor” (20) and believes that Othello has slept with his wife (20). So, Iago comes up with a plan to get revenge on Othello for this act that he never did and his plan is to convince Othello that Desdemona is cheating on him. Although Othello does not want to believe what Iago tells him, he begins to doubt the faithfulness of his wife and trust what Iago is telling him. For example, when Iago beings to convince Othello of Desdemona’s dishonesty, Othello does not want to believe it and he insists that he will “see before [he] doubts” (46). However, Othello begins to doubt and Iago begins to gain more power and authority over Othello. Ultimately, Othello loses all of his power when he discovers that Cassio and Bianca have his handkerchief which shows that Desdemona had been with Cassio even though it was only Iago who had obtained the handkerchief as part of his plan. Clearly, the authority that Othello has over Iago in the beginning of the play is lost by the end because of the elaborate plan that Iago comes up with. Othello loses his own control because of Iago and Othello, in turn, loses all authority and commits suicide. Next, in The Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack share passion and reason between them. In the novel, readers can see that Jack is more passionate in his ideas because he goes out and acts when he wants something done, while Ralph has more reason and logic in his ideas. To begin, Jack shows more passion in his ideas throughout because he doesn’t typically listen to Ralph’s commands. Rather he goes and acts on what he believes needs to be done on the island and he does what he believes every good leader needs to do; hunt. Jack is willing to go out and hunt and, eventually, his passion for hunting becomes an obsession. He becomes so focused on hunting that he is unable to fulfill the jobs that Ralph asks him to do, like maintaining the signal fire. Regardless of his fulfillment of Ralph’s order, he still shows his passion for hunting. Ultimately, his passion is shown when he confronts Ralph and says that he “is not a proper chief” and “he is a coward” (126) for not facing the dangers of the island and helping Jack with all of the jobs he has been given. In contrast, Ralph has more reason in his ideas. Ralph states that he has two goals for the group while they are on the island and those goals are “to have fun” and “to be rescued” (37). However, readers see that the only goal that he is focused on is being rescued and even though he has several ideas on how to be rescued, he never acts or does anything himself. Jack shows his frustration of Ralphs poor leadership by saying that “he just gives us orders and expects people to obey for nothing. (126)” An example of the orders that Ralph gives begins with the idea of “[making] smoke on top of the mountain” (38) as a smoke signal. However, he does not do anything to keep the fire going. Instead, he puts all of the responsibility of maintaining the fire on Jack and the hunters. Ralph has good intentions and he is logical with his ideas when it comes to being rescued, but he does not show any passion in his ideas because he does what is easiest for him and puts all of the responsibility on Jack. Similarly, in Othello, Iago and Othello share ambition and jealousy respectively. As previously mentioned, Iago’s ambition stems from the jealousy of not being chosen by Othello for the promotion and his ambition leads him to make Othello’s life miserable. In order to achieve his ambition, Iago gets the help and the money of Roderigo to carry out his plan flawlessly. Eventually, Iago convinces Othello that Desdemona has cheated on him which causes Othello to become angry and jealous of Michael Cassio, who is believed to have slept with Desdemona. Othello’s jealousy become fully exposed when he finds the handkerchief with Cassio. In fact, jealousy is Iago’s intention when he states “ I will in Cassio’s lodging lose this napkin, and let him find it” (50). Iago continues his lie by telling Othello that he overheard Cassio “mutter [his] affair” (52) with Desdemona. Just as any husband would, Othello gets jealous and he becomes obsessed with thinking about the handkerchief and how Cassio got a hold of it. Clearly, the jealousy in Othello takes over Othello and all of the jealousy stems from the ambition of Iago to make Othello miserable. In both The Lord of the Flies and Othello, readers can see a change that takes place between the two set of characters. The changes that occur between them have their reasons and motives including a desire for control, a hope of survival, jealousy, and trust. With Jack and Ralph, the reason for change between the two characters has to do with the control between the two and the different goals that they each have. On the island, there is no single person who has all of the power in the group and even though he has the title of a leader, Ralph does not act as one. Jack recognizes the weaknesses of Ralph as a leader and he tries to take control as the new authority figure on the island by having another election for a leader. When Jack tries to get the others to elect him as the new leader, there is no response and all that can be heard is a “deadly silence” (127). This response embarasses Jack because he realizes that he is not the leader that he thinks he is, but he still wants to have the power that Ralph does. The tension caused by the fight for control leads Ralph and Jack to lose focus on their goal of being rescued and become more focused on who reigns on the island. When it comes to Othello and Iago, their “friendship” ends quickly due to Iago’s motive of making Othello jealous. The reason why the relationship between them changes can be entirely blamed on Iago. Iago’s hatred for Othello is unreasonable and once again goes back to Othello not promoting him. Aside from not being promoted, Iago also “[suspects] the lusty Moor hath leaped into [his] seat” (28) meaning that Othello had an affair with Iago’s wife. Both the suspected affair and the promotion of Cassio sparks a desire for revenge within Iago and Othello is completely unaware of the elaborate prank that is happening to him. Clearly, the jealousy in Othello and the desire for power in The Lord of the Flies bring both of these friendships to an end. Finally, the terms “control” and “out of control” can be used to describe the connections that both pairs of friends share. For example, in The Lord of the Flies, the conch shell is a symbol of order because is it used to “call the others” that are on the island when they want to “have a meeting” (16). It can also be a symbol of control because any person who wants to speak must have the conch in hand to prevent “everybody talking at once” (33). Most of the time, Ralph has the conch because he is the leader of the island. Therefor, he has the control over the rest of the boys. He also shows his control by dictating orders to others. However, he begins to lose his control when Jack becomes hungry for power. Jack decides that he is a natural leader and he cannot be under the control of Ralph, so he leaves the group so that Ralph no longer has control over them. Jack’s ultimate control comes at the end of the novel when he attacks Ralph and the rest of the boys. Jack sets the jungle on fire to smoke Ralph out making it easier for Jack to attack them. Ralph is out of control in this situation because he does not have the hunting or self-defense skills that Jack has. Ironically, the fire that Jack creates to get Ralph out of the jungle is ultimately the reason why they are rescued, but it did not come from an order given by Ralph. Ralph begins the novel with the control and by the end, he is out of control because Jack wants to kill him. In Othello, Othello has control because he is General of the armies of Venice. He has the control of Iago’s future because he gets to choose whether or not to promote him. After he decides not to promote Iago, he slowly begins to lose control. Eventually, Othello cannot think of anything other than Desdemona and he begins to go insane thinking about her all the time. He gets to the point where he loses all of the control that he had of his life and he lets Iago control him through manipulative lies. Othello becomes crazed thinking of Desdemona cheating on him and he states the he “would most gladly have forgot it” but “it comes o’er [his] memory” (61). Othello can no longer control his own thoughts and the lie has taken over his life. Clearly, in Othello, Iago has the majority of the control in their relation because he is able to bring Othello into an obsessive state that eventually leads him to killing his own wife. From Batman and Robin, and Iago and Othello, to Jack and Ralph, friendships are always coming to an end. Some end peacefully and others end tragically and in the play Othello and the novel The Lord of the Flies, readers see two friendships end in tragedy. In both stories, the friends face an imbalance of power and that imbalance leads to jealousy, ambition, control, and authority that drive the friends apart. Eventually, the tension becomes too much for the friends to handle and they both lose all control of the situation. Even the strongest of friend, such as the dynamic duo, can be separated from an imbalance of power. In all friendships, there are imbalances and some are too much to overcome. Although we want to believe that all friendships are going to last a lifetime, in the end, even the strongest of friendships are not invincible.