What Kind Of Hero Is Batman? (Part I)

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In part one, I take a look at three heroic archetypes and how Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy taps into each of them in their portrayal of Batman.

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Works Cited:

Northrop Frye’s Writings on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Volume 17, by Northrop Frye. http://ow.ly/N6hL30jdDzj

Stanford, Raney. “THE ROMANTIC HERO AND THAT FATAL SELFHOOD.” The Centennial Review, vol. 12, no. 4, 1968, pp. 430–454. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23737693.

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Wilson, James D. “Tirso, Molière, and Byron: The Emergence of Don Juan as Romantic Hero.” The South Central Bulletin, vol. 32, no. 4, 1972, pp. 246–248. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3186981.

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