The Golem of Gotham

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The coming of a Jews messiah to liberate the Jews community has been well known for multiple generations, however, the coming of two messiahs at the same time to liberate the Jews, is a 20th century popular comic addition to Jews mythology. Detective Comics introduce two messiahs; Batman and the Golem. By contrasting Batman's sense of the present, of humanity, as well as his role as protector of the city, with the Golem's creation purpose and role to liberate Soul’s from his regrets. The comic The Golem of Gotham #631-632, portrays two messiahs; Batman is the human messiah and the Golem is the supernatural messiah. With this evidence the comic implies that an imperfect human messiah is more capable of saving the Jews community than a mythological creation.
To begin, the collusion of the attacks and the death of Jacob make Soul lose his sense of the present time. The comic’s setting is overlapped with Soul’s memories from Kristallnacht and the actions taking place in present time. The first panel in The Golem of Gotham Part One has a present day scene of a youth gang breaking shop’s glass windows. In this panel the two narrating boxes contain a repetition of the word “remember” to emphasize that the breaking of glass make Soul’s recall past and vivid memories. The second panel, which is a memory panel, contains the same scene of the breaking of glass by a group of uniformed men but, it is different in terms of the colors used. Unlike the first panel in the memory panel, the uniformed men are identified as the Nazi while on the first panel the attackers are anonymous. The other main difference between the panels is the difference in the colors of the two panes. The present time panel has a wide variety of blues while the memory pan...

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...n’s strongest weapon against the Golem was his humanity. As a mortal human being Batman is well aware of his role as protector of the city and sense of the present. Because he cares. The Golem is physically stronger but due to the fact that he was brought to life from dark emotions he becomes a tragic messiah. Since the reason of the creation of the Golem was to liberate all of Soul’s guilt, anger and shame, the Golem accomplished his mission. Soul’s anger, guilt and shame were exposed to the public and caused more destruction. A superhuman messiah did not saved the Jews community because the Golem was forced to come to life. A good messiah is the one that becomes a messiah voluntarily.

Works Cited

Milligan, Peter, writer. "G of G." Detective Comic #631-632. By Aparo, Jim and Decarlo, Mike. New York: DC Comics, July 1991. Print.

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