Right, so here I am again blogging into the wee hours of the morning with naught to do but ramble about something no one will ever read, or will they? I hope so or this isn't going to get marked... :D
So, structuralism... or binary opposites... something like that! essentially you know all about this already its kind of one of the things that makes you human... well normal, ill bet some sociopaths don't always quite get the difference...
going off track here, right total opposites, other ends of the spectrum rah rah rah. think when your a kid and you learnt about big/small, tall/short, fat/thin stuff like that (wow Freud would have a field day with that, three different opposites that all relate to people... I'm not shallow i promise, I'm deep... haha get it?.. no? another opposite... still no? ok never mind doesn't matter... ANYWAY!) all of these are binary opposites... BUT this isn't what i care about...
What I care about are the shades of grey in between black/white. The middle grounds, or as some call it, the anomalous zone. See I'm thinking of this really hard because the idea of batman being a good guy was said to us... and i thought to myself what a dark, angry ass superhero you have picked to represent good...
SO, Batman and The Joker... Good and bad right? Well I'm not sure, The Joker is based on a clown... Clowns are supposed to be good, and funny... But Batman is dressed in black and is based on an animal that many people find scary... So already the lines between good and bad are already blurred between these two...
Lets think a bit more spiritually too... The Joker wants to do whatever he wants, and he wants others to share his ideals. Whereas Batman is all about law and order, break the law, he breaks you... and hes not the sort to let you get away with a slap on the wrist and a caution... Seems like a very contradictory way to do it to me... realistically Batman acts like a human, and The Joker in a sense acts like an animal... we've all known of evil people but would you EVER label an animal as evil?
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