![]() ![]() ![]() I will show how this fight embodies the eternal struggle between the two Nietzschean principles.įirst, I will investigate Batman and Joker’s birth: why do they create a whole new identity? How is Joker’s reaction to suffering and irrationality different from Batman’s one? I will then dig deeper into the relationship and the fight between the two enemies, focusing mainly on the balance of their morbid relationship. Joker as a chaotic and irrational force on the one side and Batman, who tries with all his strength to oppose the chaos and absurdity, marking his life since the murder of his parents on the other side. I will refer to Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy, namely his analysis of the Apollonian and Dionysian concept, in order to analyse the relationship between Batman and his nemesis. It is from the philosophical point of view that I intend to analyse the relationship between the dark knight and the clown prince of crime. The symbolic strength of those characters and their resonance on the collective imagination is not restricted to entertainment phenomena but reaches psychological, literary, anthropological and philosophical themes and concepts. Their popularity goes far beyond the paper world they are from: it reaches every mass culture’s corner. Batman and Joker are two of the most famous characters born on the pages of a superheroic comic book.
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