Fictional vigilantes Essays

creepy dude” in every horror story that always tried to warn every one of their foreseen defeat and continuously would be laughed at and ignored. It was maddening, made her want to create a few evil thoughts of her own. Thoughts of becoming a vigilante, like the cunning cat woman in a comic strip. But she was not a superhero and did not have cool gadgets that would allow her to swing from rooftops like a shadow in the night. She had to pick her battles and eventually she realized she was losing

Benefits of a Vigilante A conversation taken from Netflix’s show Daredevil may make people rethink their morals on the topic of vigilantes. The Punisher is talking to Daredevil on why he kills criminals instead of apprehending them. "Yeah, what do you do? What do you do? You act like it's a playground. You beat up the bullies with your fists. You throw 'em in jail, everybody calls you a hero, right? And then a month, a week, a day later, they're back on the streets doing the same goddamn thing!"

James and his gang of bank robbers that were one of the best and most precise banks and train robbery gangs in the 1860s-1870s. A vigilante is a self-appointed person who undertakes law enforcement without the legal authority of doing so, typically because they believe the authorities of the law are inadequate(Vigilante). Jesse James does not deserve the image of a vigilante that works outside of the law to serve and protect the people simply because he is a murderer and a thief. This is important nowadays

Witch trials in 1692 were caused by vigilantes. The trials resulted in 20 people being murdered by hanging or imprisoned . 14 were executed. Another example is when in October 1862, Unionist sympathisers in Northern texas were killed. Over 41 people were hung, and 2 other suspects were shot while trying to escape. This event has been called the “Great Hanging at Gainesville” and may be one of the deadliest acts of Vigilante justice in history. Vigilantes believe that the current justice system

As the crowd watches, Hester Prynn, holding an infant, walks down from the prison door and makes her way to the scaffold, where she is to be publicly condemned. Both The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible were intended to teach and instruct through didactic texts. The authors conveyed this through bringing attention to specific details and the decisions of the characters in their writing. Three lessons that were included in both the play and the novel were the overcoming of the stereotypes and bias

Imagine spending your whole life doing one thing that you believed was good, then one day find out that you were completely wrong and you have not been doing good. This is what Javert found out through his journey of chasing Jean Valjean over the years. Would this turn your world upside down? Would it make you feel like your whole life was a lie? It did to Javert in the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, and is the reason why Jean Valjean is the reason Javert had no other choice than to take his

The vigilantes of Montana were to fight off criminals and make the state safe for the women and children to live in but in the eyes of some citizens saw them as criminals. There was many vigilante groups all over the state of Montana in 1863 and one of those vigilantes was simple x. Simple x was one of the most known and notorious vigilante in Montana. As a vigilante he would try to stop criminals all over the state of Montana and stop them from robbing stores and stealing gold. His real name was

The Batman Logo Batman is a fictional vigilante character created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, first appearing in DC comic books in 1939. In the first issue, Batman’s symbol is a simple black bat with spread wings and 5-7 points, no great effort at continuity was kept by the artists when depicting his symbol as at that time Batman was not a famous character like the iconic batman brand we see commonly in pop culture today. The logo has undergone over 30 iterations to present day to appeal to consumers

Numerous accounts of literature display the significance of past events to the details of the present or future. Many novels show certain behaviors or actions of characters that are directly related to things that have happened in the past. This literary technique is evident in the novel The Great Gatsby, a book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this story, the lavish life in the 1920s is personified by a diverse group of people living in New York. The main focus of the story is a mysteriously wealthy

Communism in theory seems perfect, but in practicality it remains only a theory because there remains no feasible way to accomplish it. A person/people will always possess more power than the rest, yet majority of people believe it could solve some of the most horrendous problems the world faces; however, true equality in a society exists in hypothetical and ideological scenarios. True equality represents equality based on everything humanly possible, which means physical characteristics, education

To me, ambition and greed are very similar. They both push us to do and obtain more. However, the line that cuts the two terms appart is whether the urges to do or obtain are harmful. Simply put, greed is unhealthy and ambition is not. In the short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner", by D. H. Lawrence, the destructiveness of greed is showcased through a relationship between a mother and her son, named Hester and Paul respectively. Living in a pleasant house with a nice garden and servants, Hester

TO PLAY WITH FIRE Introduction Countless scientific explorations and experimentations had been conducted and were continuing to be conducted up to and during the time Frankenstein was written in. Directly and indirectly through these explorations and experimentations living conditions of humanity changed drastically and rapidly especially -unincidentally- (In relation to the period in which Marry Shelley lived.) during the 18th and 19th centuries. Human societies experienced dramatic changes in

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” (Mary Shelley Quotes). Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein in 1818. The novel includes many interesting events. By her choice of words readers are hooked to think Victor is the antagonist. Victor creates the Creature, but there are many situations throughout the novel where the Monster displays as the victim. He seeks love from different people, but everyone treats him bad. His anger towards his father drives him to kill Victor’s

While Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, and The Prestige, directed by Christopher Nolan, are both works of art that distinctly follow the codes and conventions of an epistolary story, they contain several other similarities and differences within their elements of fiction that can be used for analysis purposes. In both the novel and film, there is a strong overarching theme of appearance vs. reality, which, when studied closely, can tie in to other elements of fiction in each text. Appearance

In the Brave New World, a book written by Aldous Huxley,, he writes about a utopian future where humans are genetically created and pharmaceutically anthesized. Huxley introduces three ideals which become the world's state motto. The motto that is driven into their dystopian society is “Community, Identity and Stability.” These are qualities that are set to structure the Brave New World. Yet, happen to contradict themselves throughout the story. Some of the characteristics of the Brave New World

Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to display corruption through his procurement of riches. He tells his neighbor, Nick Carraway, that he indulges in the ‘drug business’. During Prohibition, persons involved in this business implied that the individual was a bootlegger. Bootlegging was a profoundly beneficial business and bootleggers were generally associated with criminals who practiced cruel deeds. Gatsby often felt that he must be apart of a society based on wealth and power not confidence. Thus, involving

Often in novels the central character can have a major influence on other characters throughout the story. Whether the influence is positive or negative, some form of growth and change is seen in the surrounding characters. In the cases of The Great Gatsby and The Metamorphosis, these central characters are also a mystery that the surrounding characters are trying to solve. This paper will discuss the influence Jay Gatsby had on other characters in The Great Gatsby and the influence that Gregor Samsa

Although money is not omnipotent, but no money is totally unacceptable, this proverb is so familiar to us all. It tells us how important money is! To be honest, we are spending money everyday, we use it for lunch, for shopping, for travel, etc. But it may difficult for us to imagine that people use it for love, for social status, for fame and true friends, while these are true to Gatsby. In the Great Gatsby, the author tells us a story about a man whose name was Gatsby, when he final became rich

Everyone wants to be successful and live the life they always dream about having. Some people achieve the dream and others fail to accomplish it. The short story was published in December of 1922. Fitzgerald has multiple stories that he is well known for, but The Great Gatsby is his claim to fame. In most of his stories he focuses on the American Dream, mostly the failure of it. He is known for writing about a poor boy who falls in love with a rich girl and will do anything to be with her. “Winter

In Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market, innocence is shown to be a quality which is possessed and cannot be exchanged through typical means; if it can be exchanged at all. The first stanza directly specifies who is hearing the goblins’ spiel: “Morning and evening/Maids heard the goblins cry:”. The goblins are calling to young, unmarried girls---who are, even by most modern standards, the portrait of innocence. The stanza goes on to describe in detail the kinds and qualities of the fruits which