The series Arrow focuses on fighting crime in Starling City where you can go from the mansions to the Glades by just crossing town. The main character is Oliver Queen is also known as Arrow. His job starts off only getting rid of people on his deceased fathers hit list. However as the series continues he begins to help his city become a better place by stopping bank robbers and other crime. Oliver has the help of his two sidekicks Diggle and Felicity. They help him watch the city, learn about crimes, and plan how to take action. In Aeon Skoble’s article “Superhero Revisionism” the main focus is on philosophical complexity within superheros, “leads us to rethink our fundamentals moral ideas and our attitudes toward the concept of a superhero.” (34) Oliver wants justice by stopping criminals in his city,while Helena wants personal revenge on her father. Oliver tries to show Helena will only be happy with the result without hurting innocent people. Oliver is the human form of Skoble’s focus of getting justice for everyone “he has always been cautious and measured in his use of violence, he has refused to cross certain lines,and he has consistently interfered with only criminals.” (33) While Helena is exactly what Skoble tries to prove is the wrong way of living.
Overall Skoble does a wonderful job of picking showing the difference of justice and vengeance. Skoble is “throwing the responsibility of meaning and justice onto us all.” (39) Vengeance is shown by someone who goes out and “looks for trouble and then defends against it,”(30) Skoble explains that this wouldn’t be an act of justice because its not a real act of heroism if they go out looking for bad guys and not engaging in self defense against threats. In Arrow there are som...
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...ed in utilitarian terms, direct to the greater good; I gave them my obedience and my invisibility,” (32) and if superheroes should be able to do wrong to make a bigger more overall good for the city. Even though Oliver doesn’t work with the government, he leaves a crime scene before they get there so he won’t be caught. He doesn’t kill the people he stops, he allows the government to take over and give the people the punishment they deserve. Oliver and Helena are representations of Skoble’s article because Skoble is conveying that superheros actions are always justified if working with the law and getting criminals off the street, which is exactly what Oliver does. While Helena on the other is the exact opposite of Skoble’s focus while she is seeking out her own personal vengeance she is killing innocent people along the way, which Skoble shows would be unjustified.
“ It revolves around moral correction in situations where certain ethical and culturally vital principles have been violated.” (Seltzer) In short, justice is for correcting the wrongs of another person as even handed as possible. “All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.” (Thane Rosenbaum)
For the meek, vengeance pleasures the soul; however, it is only temporal. Like an addictive drug, revenge soothes anger and tension by sedating the mind with ephemeral comfort. Despite the initial relief, pain ensues and conditions seem worse than before. Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the non-violence movement in India, stated once that “an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” There is no such thing as a sweet revenge.
Vengeance is the act of taking revenge for a past wrong. In the Crucible, Thomas Putnam and Abigail Williams both took advantage of circumstances to carry out vengeance against different people.
With all of the symbolism and moral issues represented in Oliver Twist, all seem to come from real events from the life of its author, Charles Dickens. The novel’s protagonist, Oliver, is a good person at heart surrounded by the filth of the London streets, filth that Dickens himself was forced to deal with in his everyday life. It’s probable that the reason Oliver Twist contains so much fear and agony is because it’s a reflection of occurrences in Charles Dickens' past. Oliver Twist also brought to light the evils of social injustice and the victims of it.
Oliver Twist, a novel written by Charles Dickens during the Victorian Era, chronicles the life of a small young boy. Oliver, an orphan grows up in a workhouse in severe and harsh conditions. Placed under the subjugation of the upper class, Oliver is taken for granted to be corrupt and immoral because he is unlearned and poor. However, this stereotype is soon faulted when Oliver turns out to be an innocent and sympathetic boy whose fate is inadvertently tragic. Even with such disadvantages, it is Oliver’s looks of innocence and lack of evil inside him that enables him to rise out from poverty. His innocence is the tool that allows Oliver to escape life at the bottom of society. It is also the trait that brings many people to pity him and help him. With this enhancement, Oliver is able to eventually trace his family lineage and find his place in society. Charles Dickens is protesting in this book that everyone should have a chance to become successful in life; that even criminals should be allowed a second chance to undo their acts and crimes.
In conclusion my expectations were met because we all want to be a certain hero in our everyday lives but sometimes don’t know which one is actually the better and more positive one. Strength, power, intelligence, and authority are the most important things the outlaw hero and official hero will bring even if they are above a certain rule or really beneath it. Outlaws are not always the bad guys, but are not always the good guys either. In this case Batman is the good guy disguised as the bad guy. Official heroes are always the good guys no matter the circumstance. Superman in this case is the good guy disguised as the actual good guy. Being above the law or against it, official heroes and outlaw heroes will always paint the picture that you can be strong, powerful, intelligent, and have the authority you deserve.
Everyone dreams of being a hero however the path is narrow. The mantle of responsibility is important aspects and the presence of the heroic traits must be shown in some form. However, there will always be outliers and deemed delusional who attempt to be heroes. In Watchmen, Moore creates an omnipotent hero who lacks humanity in the portrayal of the Dr. Manhattan as a psychopathic anti-hero.
So far it had seemed like a productive day, Talia had made her final move to Starling City from the next city over, River View, for a job interview and a chance at a new life. However, it wasn’t just a job interview; it was for a placement at Queen Industries. Well, the placement wasn’t as one would think. The job advertised was for an assistant. Talia had been in several admin roles for several years on and off. It was something that would have been all too easy; even if it was for a position for Oliver Queen’s assistant. Talia had to practically barge her way into the office for the interview. Despite being head hunted for the position, it seemed they were open to applications. As soon as Talia was filled in on her official role she learned that she had been specifically picked after being watched for some time, the others were simply making it seem real.
In the novel Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, interprets the achievement of order and law through the use of power and violence by superheroes. This novel consists a total of seven different characters to demonstrate how superheroes obtain peace in society through the use of violence. The writer portrays the plot in different characters’ perspectives by guiding readers in their point of view. This motivation also assists readers to examine the loneliness and the feeling of isolation during Dr. Jonathan Osterman, Walter Joseph Kovacs and Laurie Juspeczky’s life experiences.
The novel Oliver Twist follows an orphan on his journey to find out his true identity. During Oliver’s journey, he is forced into the harsh side of reality, ultimately challenging his innocence. His mother dies giving birth to him and he is raised in an orphanage that treats the kids as workers and barely feeds them anything. Oliver eventually runs away from the orphanage and goes to London where he encounters a gang of criminals. Dickens uses his book to criticize the cruelty that the poor experienced in nineteenth century society. Dickens tells the story through the eyes of a poor boy named Oliver Twist who is portrayed as being innocent and pure while everyone else in the book is, on the contrast, evil. Dickens uses Oliver as a symbol of a truly good person who can overcome his experiences and always prevail over evil. Dickens shows that after all of the malevolent things that Oliver goes through, he is still a genuinely good person. In Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist Dickens portrays a boy that can defeat all odds and overcome evil because Oliver Twist is idealistic, ignorant, naïve, and overall inherently good. Dickens shows through Oliver’s ability to not be corrupted an example of idealism in what was his modern Victorian society.
In Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist, Dickens portrays the hardships of people in poverty during the Victorian era through Oliver and various characters throughout the novel. Oliver is born into a workhouse with no name where he is starved, beaten, and treated like a prisoner during the first ten years of his life. Dickens makes all his characters in the novel “…either a jailor or a prisoner, like Dickens himself both, the author and his turn key” (Lepore). Two characters that are both exemplified as prisoners throughout the novel are Oliver and Nancy. During Oliver’s younger years, he is under both the Parochial and Fagin’s reign. As for Nancy, she is depicted in certain ways as a prisoner to Bill Sikes. While Oliver is under the Parachial’s control, he is lacking food and being mistreated. Due to this exploitation, he builds up the courage to ask “…the cook at the workhouse for more gruel’’ (Dickens 12). During this era, it was rare for people of his social class to speak out and ask such demanding questions. Questions of this stature during this era is very comparable to someone breaking the law, due to the Poor Laws which set the quota of how much a person needs to eat. The Parochial were corrupt because they would short the amount of gruel per person and keep the money. Oliver is soon put up for sale, due to his unruliness, and sold to Sowerberry. Sowerberry lacking the available funds, is supported by his corrupt friend Mr. Bumble, who pockets the money for himself. With the help from Mr. Bumble, Sowerberry frees Oliver from the maltreatment of the parochial. Throughout the novel, Dickens uses many characters to challenge the Victorian idea that paupers and criminals ar...
He is living proof of childhood corruption and portrays himself as his young, mischievous, and perplexed characters Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. He proves that he is a product of the Victorian era as he brings attention to the childhood cruelty, the less fortunate in an English society, and the unwealthy dysfunctional families of the early Victorian time period. Charles Dickens reflects these and other issues as he brings to life the realism of writing. While others were writing about the way things should be, rather than the way things were, Dickens was challenging these ideas, and argued that paupers and criminals were not evil at birth. This was an act of rebellion, for he in fact was showing the Victorian middle class generation how things felt from a different point of view.
Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist, centers itself around the life of the young, orphan Oliver, but he is not a deeply developed character. He stays the same throughout the entire novel. He has a desire to be protected, he wants to be in a safe and secure environment, and he shows unconditional love and acceptance to the people around him. These are the only character traits that the reader knows of Oliver. He is an archetype of goodness and innocence. His innocence draws many people close to him. Each character is attracted to his innocence for different reasons, some to destroy it and others to build it. Their relationships with Oliver reveal nothing more about his personality. They reveal more about their own personalities. Therefore, Oliver is used not as the protagonist of the story, but as the anchor for the development of the other characters.
Oliver Twist provides insight into the experience of the poor in 1830s England. Beneath the novel's humor and dramatic plot runs an undertone of bitter criticism of the Victorian middle class's attitudes toward the poor. Dickens's Oliver Twist very vividly critisizes the legal system, workhouses, and middle class moral values and marriage practices of 1830s England. Basic Situation: Oliver Twist is born a sickly infant in a workhouse. His birth is attended by the parish surgeon and a drunken nurse. His mother kisses his forehead and dies, and the nurse announces that Oliver's mother was found lying in the streets the night before. The surgeon notices that she is not wearing a wedding ring. Oliver is then placed into a very undesirable situation as a poor, homeless, helpless, motherless orphan. The first few years of his life offer nothing more than a life of many trails and little to no triumph. The entire story of Oliver Twist revolves around his mysterious identity. Who is Oliver Twist? Complication: The complication Of Oliver's life was that he didn't know who he was and he had no place in society. From birth he was thrown from one bad situation into another. He worked in a workhouse where he was treated badly and barely feed. After working there for a while, still a child, he started work with and undertaker who also treated him badly and beat him spiractically. When Oliver ran away from the undertaker, he fell into the hands of some low life thieves, who tired to persuade him into a life of crime. "Fagin assures him that he has won Oliver over in spirit, but he wants Oliver to take part in a serious crime in order to firmly seal the boy in his power". (Dickens, Chp. 18) Climax: Although temptation is all ...
can be seen in Oliver Twist, a novel about an orphan, brought up in a workhouse and poverty to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the upper class people. Oliver Twist shows Dickens' perspective of society in a realistic, original manner, which hope to change society's views by "combining a survey of the actual social scene with a metaphoric fiction designed to reveal the nature of such a society when exposed to a moral overview" (Gold 26). Dickens uses satire, humorous and biting, through pathos, and stock characters in Oliver Twist to pr...