The King Joker Analysis
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Is Joker a good guy? Everyone thinks that Joker is an evil guy. However there is a secret to him. He is a vigilante who kills evil for the greater good, even though it makes him a monster. He does this to fix Gotham City and return it to a place where no crooks can live. In the movie, there are lots of shots that show how he fights for justice by killing evil, he gains nothing for being a vigilante and uses a knife to find the true personality of people to fight for the greater good. The reason why he fights against Batman is because he thinks that he has to kill crooks.
He kills only evil people for justice and goodness of Gotham City. In the movie his action seems very evil but He does this for greater good. For example, at the beginning
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that joker is a vigilante who kills evil for the greater good, even though it makes him monster.
- Analyzes how joker kills only evil people for justice and goodness of gotham city.
- Analyzes how joker kills people because he wants to change gotham city. he is willing to use his own life to fix the city.
- Analyzes how batman fights against batman because he saves crooks while joker is trying to kill them, which creates confusion between him and batman.
- Analyzes how the joker is an important character in batman movies. he is always shown to be a bad, evil character, but has secret reasons why he does.
It is obviously not because it will make him a scary monster and no one will like him. But only reason why he kills people is because he want to change Gotham City. This is seen when he said he don’t want Gotham city to be full of crime, greed and corruption. This show Joker loves Gotham city and want to change it to normal which means free from crime and place that crooks can’t live. He is willing to use his own life to fix Gotham City, I think that the author is trying to make us think about this paradox ‘Good is bad and bad is good’ This means good might be bad and bad might be good. That is why he said “Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can’t savor all the… little emotions. In… you see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way, I know your friends better than you ever did. Would you like to know which of them were cowards?” This shows that he want to know true personality of others and show justice to all the …show more content…
That is a reason why he is fighting against Batman. This is seen when he said “I don’t want to kill you.” to Batman. Because Batman is a hero everyone thinks that Joker is bad. But that is wrong. Even though he kills people he is doing it for justice but Batman thinks that joker is killing innocent people which creates confusion between him and Batman. This shows that Joker is a true vigilante because even though there is a big barrier in front of him, he will never stop trying to fix Gotham City.‘Joker kills people, that is why Batman is fighting against him.’ This statement is wrong because there is secrets behind him and he always thinks that Gotham city should be fixed.
The Joker is an important character in Batman movies. He is always shown to be a bad, evil character. However, he has secret reasons why he does what he does. If these secrets were well known he might be considered to be a popular Vigilante. He is doing this is because he wants to change Gotham City to a place that crooks can’t live and be safe from crimes and gangs, he kills evil for the greater good and uses a knife to bring forth justice because Joker did lots of things that Batman couldn’t. Do you still thinks that Joker is a bad
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