Who Is The Joker In The Killing Joke
Part A:
Introduction
Joker is a comic character from the batman series, it is not until the release of “Batman: The killing joke” that people got to know his past. Although joker from The Killing Joke may be the most original one, but it is too short and it is hard to observe the body language and facial expression from the comic, so I would like to give a analyze of the joker from the movie The Dark Knight.
Joker is an unreliable narrator – a people who always say thing confusing other, he makes up lots of lie about his past. This time he may have a story A about his past, but the next time he will have another story about his past. In the movie The Dark Knight, he asked “do you know how did I get these scars?” for three times, and told …show more content…
Id refers to the basic needs and desires presents from birth, which is working according to the pleasure principle, i.e. the needs must be satisfied or it will lead to anxiety of tension (Kendra, n.d.). If a person take actions totally based on the id, he/she only do what make himself/herself feels good. In contract of the id (which is only driven by one’s internal thought), the ego is part of id which has been modified by the external world - the reality, it works according to the reality principle , tries to find a possible way to fulfill one’s inner desires, here, possible means reasonable and make sense (McLeod, 2008). Finally, the superego is a reflection of one’s moral rule and where the feeling of guilt comes from, it works according to the morality principle, and it is the character of father in one’s mind and is believed to learn from parents. The super-ego shows aggressiveness of the ego and has an opposite standpoint with the id. Ego (how to fulfill the needs in a suitable way) can be considered as the judge between id (needs) and superego (awareness of social or moral …show more content…
The reason why he always telling different story about his scar may be the confusion of his memory. From Freud’s point of view, when a person come to a very anxiety situation, the ego protects the person by complying the defense mechanisms, here, joker’s ego may employed the defense mechanism “suppression” – putting those depressing memories into the unconscious, those memories still affect a person’s behaviors. Joker may put the real memory to his unconscious, but some fragments from the memories affects what he
Introduction
Joker is a comic character from the batman series, it is not until the release of “Batman: The killing joke” that people got to know his past. Although joker from The Killing Joke may be the most original one, but it is too short and it is hard to observe the body language and facial expression from the comic, so I would like to give a analyze of the joker from the movie The Dark Knight.
Joker is an unreliable narrator – a people who always say thing confusing other, he makes up lots of lie about his past. This time he may have a story A about his past, but the next time he will have another story about his past. In the movie The Dark Knight, he asked “do you know how did I get these scars?” for three times, and told …show more content…
Id refers to the basic needs and desires presents from birth, which is working according to the pleasure principle, i.e. the needs must be satisfied or it will lead to anxiety of tension (Kendra, n.d.). If a person take actions totally based on the id, he/she only do what make himself/herself feels good. In contract of the id (which is only driven by one’s internal thought), the ego is part of id which has been modified by the external world - the reality, it works according to the reality principle , tries to find a possible way to fulfill one’s inner desires, here, possible means reasonable and make sense (McLeod, 2008). Finally, the superego is a reflection of one’s moral rule and where the feeling of guilt comes from, it works according to the morality principle, and it is the character of father in one’s mind and is believed to learn from parents. The super-ego shows aggressiveness of the ego and has an opposite standpoint with the id. Ego (how to fulfill the needs in a suitable way) can be considered as the judge between id (needs) and superego (awareness of social or moral …show more content…
The reason why he always telling different story about his scar may be the confusion of his memory. From Freud’s point of view, when a person come to a very anxiety situation, the ego protects the person by complying the defense mechanisms, here, joker’s ego may employed the defense mechanism “suppression” – putting those depressing memories into the unconscious, those memories still affect a person’s behaviors. Joker may put the real memory to his unconscious, but some fragments from the memories affects what he