Dexter: The Dark Passenger

Have you ever have felt like two completely different people? Dexter Morgan has been all of these throughout his entire life since he was little. His mother was killed in front of him when he was at a very young age. A cop named Harry Morgan had founded Dexter when he was in a pool of blood beside his mother. He taught Dexter all of these ways to not get caught. To keep his hands clean without being under someone’s radar. Dexter’s character arch is symbolic of the human struggle to move from the primitive monster to the noble and compassionate messiah. The Dexter T.V. show is about a blood splatter pattern analyst for Miami Metro Police Department who also accompany of an undisclosed serial killer. Hunting down criminals who slip past the Miami Metro Police Department. The person Dexter is quite different from a “normal” person’s life. He is very intelligent person; while multitasking being a father as well. In his spare time, he is a vigilante serial killer who goes after other murderers who have escaped Miami area. At the same time he follows all the moral codes his step-dad Harry Morgan have coached him since he was young. Which in the show he refers to as “The Code of Harry” time and time again. The world he lives in is very fast paced based on his two mind concept. He considers himself emotionally separated from the rest of mankind. He always considers the “humans” as if he is not one himself. He tells himself he has no conscience or feelings towards anything in his life. Until that is when he met his girlfriend Rita. She had two kids prior meeting Dexter, but they decided to have one their own. That changed his own image from having feelings towards belongings or relationships with others. The main image of Dexte...

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... thrill of complete wrongness. I don’t fight him, I don’t want to. He’s all I’ve got. Nothing else could love me, not even… especially not me. Or is that just a lie the Dark Passenger tells me? Because lately there are these moments when I feel connected to something else… someone. It’s like the mask is slipping and things… people… who never mattered before are suddenly starting to matter. It scares the hell out of me." — Dexter ("An Inconvenient Lie" Season 2 Episode 3).

Works Cited

Cordaro, Allison. "Top 20 'Dexter' Quotes." Celebrity and Entertainment News. N.p., 07 Apr. 2013. Web. 02 Apr. 2014.

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