Although her love interest, the Joker, believes that life is a joke and should be viewed as such, Harleen Quinzel’s life is anything but funny. She was first created as a simple character by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm and was meant to be a one time appearance as the Joker’s sidekick in the episode “Joker’s Favor” in Batman: The Animated Series. Fans quickly fell in love with her playfully charming characteristics so she was soon developed into a deeply complex character with a past and a storyline. Unfortunately, her lovable persona serves mainly as a cover up for the true trauma beneath her surface. In reality, abusive and damaged relationships have deeply scarred her. They left her with many layers of desire, confusion, and evil to tarnish the good within.
Harleen Quinzel began on a positive path, but a lack of support in her life allowed her to quickly derail from the life that she was after. She grew up in a home filled with classic evil and general disgust. Her father was a malicious man. He seduced women in their weakest moments and tricked
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She attended Gotham City University, under a gymnastics scholarship, with the intent of getting a degree from their psychology program. Displaying her deceitful side, the comic Mad Love implies that she would be sleeping, or at least flirting, her way through university when the comic states, “Never mind that she didn’t want to get it done by studying” (Dini 19). This quote was accompanied by a smirking Harley exiting a professor's office with a newly written “A+” on her thesis paper. It is likely that her seeking after professors was not only an easy way to receive high grades, but also a reflection of her “daddy problems”. Harley’s father never gave her the attention she needed, resulting in her sleeping with older men to compensate. Harley always internalizes the results of the relationships in her life and changes her lifestyle and attitude
In the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, the protagonist Ethan Frome has an unusual personality. Along with this, Ethan’s motivations seem hidden. Ethan mainly associates with his wife Zeena and his young lover Mattie. The reason his social circle is limited is because the town has shunned him. The people have isolated him due to the decisions he has made. The story begins with the new town Reverend who forms a special interest in Ethan. Furthermore, the story goes back in time to explain why the town treats Ethan the way they do.
that ll the power was contained in himself. So he did a very clever thing, he took
...ke a person experience a 180 change. It seems as if Mary Anne Bell’s a person who’s lost her cute personality after she was just too involved with the war that was going on. It has been said that a war can truly change a person so much that they can lose all their old characteristics or better yet their appearance. This quote was used to show how Mary Anne was starting to act grim and unusual. Also, this quote showed how different she speaks to her boyfriend and the ways she even finds her joy everything was and is different. This was unusal as Mary Anne because she obviously she loves her boyfriend a lot, but the unusual things is that not only is it that her personality changes but her appearances started to change also. Mary Anne’s appearance was just different and weird because it seemed as if she was just able to adjust her living styles to a common soldiers. “
...e to overcome her father’s oppressive garnered her ‘good life’ alongside the respect her father and his family business (Hobson).
Her attendance at the picnic with Tea Cake was an act of faith, taking the relationship into the public arena. Social condemnation was fast in coming, especially because she discarded her mourning colors. She was free of Jody, so she also took steps to defy the restrictions that social convention placed on her behavior. Gaining personal freedom was a two-fold process. First, she had to be free in her private life, but she also had to free herself from restricting social attitudes. Only then could she begin to heal the rift between her outside self and her inside self.
Bad relationships can leave a bad impact on your life. Carley’s life was affected when Carley’s mom was mean and told Carley things that aren't right but Carley does not know what is right or wrong. “I’ve been beaten and abandoned. I’ve been chased by
she discovers what it meant for her to be attractive growing up. She was constantly
...tionship has completely evolved and the narrator somewhat comes into her own a natural and inevitable process.
When comics were first coming out, they were not all that popular but in todays’ world, they have become very popular and well known. Several of these comics have been turned into films, which is one of the many reasons why the popularity has been rising over the years. One of the most well known comics is Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. This comic was composed and released in 1986 by Frank Miller. With the usage of Frank Miller’s powerful, intense lines and the artwork done by Klaus Janson’s and Lynn Varley’s it has elevated this comic up to the very top of mainstream comics. In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the skillful illustrations on the pages successfully create the thought that there are underlying meanings, which makes the atmosphere a very intense one throughout the comic. The work of art that is presented on the pages in this comic are embedded in such a way that the pages become the continuum for the meaning. One of the main themes that are imbedded on the pages through the artwork in this book is the ideological struggle between Bruce Wayne and Batman.
Her cunning and manipulative ways has ultimately led to the destroying a man’s life that he has worked so hard to
believed he could not be stopped and that rules did not apply to him. By being
Inej Ghafa is my favorite character from Leigh Bardugo’s duology Six of Crows for a myriad of reasons. She was a sex slave turned assassin who not only managed to reconcile her job with her religion, which heavily emphasizes peace and kindness, but became the voice reason for the most notoriously unreasonable and overly violent gang boss in Ketterdam, Kaz Brekker. Inej toed the line between morality and survival, two things that were mutually exclusive in Ketterdam, and managed to stay true to herself and her religion despite the number of people she had murdered rather brutally for the sake of information and money. Bardugo also challenged gender-specific societal roles and stereotypes with Inej’s character. This nonconformity was also somewhat
Why so serious? This phrase often triggers the memory of The Joker in one’s head. For a fictional character, The Joker has managed to effect society more than any other super villain. The Jokers appearance is so bold and chilling that the president and publisher of DC comics said, “I keep coming back to the way he (the joker) incarnates madness” (Camp et al, 2010). The president of DC comics is not the only one that keeps coming back to The Joker. Audiences around the world are captivated by his character. Unlike any other super hero movie, the villain gets just as much attention as Batman. The Joker is such a complex and intricate character that his victims and audiences are easily influenced by his actions but even more manipulated by his