Joker In The Dark Night

As my character, I decided to analyze the Joker from the movie The Dark Night, because I believe it is a character that has a very disturbed and complex personality to explore. Psychological disorders are psychological or behavioral patterns, potentially reflected in behavior, that is normally associated with distress or disability, and which is not considered part of normal development in a person’s culture. Many people talk about his character and consider him a psychopath, which is actually not exactly true. The Joker feels emotions and the definition of psychopathy says that a person does not have any feelings or emotions. Keyser (2013) supports this point by saying “unlike most murderers, who act in the heat of a passion, and later feel guilty about what they have done, psychopaths feel no such remorse.” Keyser also explains that psychopaths can be socially smart if they chose to, that’s how they seduce their victims. For example, a blind person can learn the colors and when to use them such as, blue sky, green tree etc, even though they cannot see the colors. Psychopaths can learn the same way to mimic emotions, yet they don’t feel. According to Keyser psychopaths don’t feel any distress, but this is not the only case with Joker. His emotions might be sick humor or anger, and often sadness when one of his plans
Additionally, the person suffering from this disorder may also be aggressive or ruthless. Just as Kivi (2012) describes, “In the case of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), a person's personality becomes overwhelmed by a mental health condition that causes patterns of manipulation and violation of others around them”. The Joker shows this disorder basically throughout the entire movie. It is not necessarily against his family, but against the entire city of Gotham, including