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Archetypes In Batman Nightwalker

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Guyer High School

Archetypal Literary Criticism of Batman Nightwalker

Cameron Posada
English 4
Coach K
March 8, 2023

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Coach K
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Most people strive to and try to do the best they can, especially when they have the ability and power to do so. When using literary theory, you can use it to explore the deeper meaning of what the text is telling you. When reading Batman Nightwalker, while focusing on literary archetypes, the reader will distinguish that with significant power and privilege comes responsibility, and true heroism lies in using that power to protect and serve the greater good. even when it is difficult or dangerous to do so. The hero’s journey as a situational archetype, as well as the character archetypes …show more content…

Batman Nightwalker’s genre is fiction with a subgenre of Young Adult literature and was published in January 2018. Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Harvey Dent, Detective Draccon, and Madeline Wallace. The central conflict that Bruce is dealing with is that he keeps getting involved and caught up in the nightwalker’s crimes that he tries to help and solve. Bruce resolves this conflict by stopping the nightwalkers during the invasion at the Gala. Bruce learned that with power and privilege comes responsibility, and true heroism lies in using that power to protect and serve the greater good, even when it's difficult or dangerous. Batman nightwalker offers a variety of vital themes, as well as gives a unique perspective on …show more content…

The mentor often serves as a father or mother, gives the hero gifts, and serves as a role model or as the hero's conscience (Archetypes). Alfred, who serves as Bruce’s butler and confidant, uses his wisdom to guide Bruce as a way of being a second father to him. When Alfred identifies Bruce for the first time after his crash, Alfred tells Bruce that …” You are not law enforcement, you can't just intervene like that” (Lu 30). Alfred takes the time to proclaim the dangers of getting involved with dangers like that and teaches him to mature as a person like a father figure

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