“It’s not who I am underneath‚ but what I do that defines me.” This famous Batman quote from the Christopher Nolan’s Batman series‚ has a lot more truth to it than a person may think. It is not so much who a person is but rather what they do that defines their personality as well as the kind of person they are. There are many sociological principles that influence an individual. The three main sociological principles that shape the character and are also evident through the trilogy are family‚ money
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Batman and Social Learning Theory: A Theological Analysis of The Dark Knight Rises The purpose of this paper will be to use Social Learning Theory to analyze the theological connections found in The Dark Knight Rises and how it shapes the reality of kids. According to Anthony Mills (2013)‚ the author of American Theology‚ Superhero Comics‚ and Cinema: The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genre‚ “…movies are part of the toolbox that many people use as they respond to and give shape to
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Poe or Batman? His parents die when he is young‚ making him and his siblings orphans. He is separated from his siblings and sent off to live with strangers. Constant conflict with his adoptive father drives him away from the only family he knows. He joins the army‚ only to be thrown out of West Point after eight months. He returns to the home of his dead parents‚ only to be robbed by a cousin. His life seems to be changed for the better when he is taken in by his aunt and meets this young wife‚
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games‚ cartoons‚ or millions of comics—Batman is proof you don’t need superpowers to be a superhero and the poster boy for what a bad childhood can do to you. Millionaire Bruce Wayne was just a kid when he watched his parents get gunned down during a mugging in Gotham City. The crime would define his life‚ as he dedicated himself to becoming the world’s greatest weapon against crime—the Batman. In his secret identity‚ Batman is Bruce Wayne‚ a wealthy businessman
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civilization‚ to the ancient Greeks‚ and even to popular culture now. Three specific stories with very similar hero-sidekick themes are the relationships between Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh‚ Achilles and Patroclus in the Iliad‚ and Batman and Robin in the graphic novel Death in the Family. This essay will explore the similarities and differences between these important pieces of literature. The three mythologies are quite different in relation to the three pairs’ relationships with
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lessons and explain the unknown and teach them through the stories. Finally myths create a connection between the past and present by establishing a basic pattern everyone can relate to. This pattern was discovered by Joseph Campbell and is called monomyth. Campbell proposes that‚ “all myths are essentially hero-quest stories‚ each of which rings a unique change on a universal pattern…” Campbell analyzed a number of myths and discovered that every hero travels through the same journey. These journeys
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prepare themselves for heroism through a series of challenges that they overcome. Does Campbell succeed at making this argument? Campbell begins the story with explaining how all hero stories are exactly the same‚ which is a monomyth. Joseph Campbell explains that a monomyth is stories from all cultures are essentially the same‚ since they try to convey the universal truths of life and the way our living experiences are reflected as part of the larger universe. Campbell conveys that the
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he dubbed it the monomyth. Through years of studying he found that this popular motif is made up of ten basic steps that a hero follows through a story. Well known film writer and director George Lucas molded the film Star Wars around Campbell’s monomyth not only with intent but quite distinctively. Lucas is not the only one doing this in Hollywood either‚ many screenwriters and directors have caught on to this including Andrew Stanton as he depicted his version of the monomyth in Finding Nemo. This
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idea of a hero’s journey‚ also called as the monomyth. Written in 1949 by Joseph Campbell‚ the book uses worldwide examples in order to highlight the similarities found in every heros journey‚ which can be seen in Coraline. one can see how in Coraline also passes threw different hero phases such as the call to adventure‚ refusual of the call and the crossing of the first threshold‚ just to name a few. To start with‚ one of the first things of the monomyth found in “Coraline” is the call to adventure
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UNIT 1 Lesson 4 Key Question: The monomyth has become one of the most popular and highly used archetypes in literature. The short essay “The Step Not Taken” is an example‚ entailing the three stages: separation‚ struggle‚ and reintegration. During the separation stage‚ the narrator Paul D’ Angelo encounters a junior executive who begins to cry during an elevator trip‚ and his life drastically changes. He also encounters his guide‚ who helps him during the monomyth. Throughout the struggle stage‚ he
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