Oedipus and Batman compared
Oedipus and Batman Great and tragic love is something that happens to everyone in their life time. In the two completely different stories of Oedipus and Batman they both have them same story line. Batman and Oedipus are two different types of heroes but the same when it comes to the archetype theme of tragic forbidden love. In this essay I will explain archetypes, themes, and what the themes of these stories are. Forbidden love happens in all great stories. Some of the greatest include Titanic, and Romeo and Juliette. Yet Unlike Romeo and Juliette Batman and Oedipus’ family aren’t what is keeping them apart from their soul mates, it is themselves. Even though Batman knows he cannot save everyone all the time and that it takes a toll on him as a person he refuses to give up being Batman. Since he does not want to give up Batman Rachel tells him he can either give up saving the city and being Batman to be with her or and she will marry Harvey Dent. She gave him the proposition in hopes that he would make the right choice to give up Batman, but instead chooses to be Batman and Rachel ends up dying.. Archetypes are constant reoccurring symbols in literature. There are a few different types of archetypes in the stories of Oedipus Rex and Batman The Dark Night. The themes of Oedipus Rex are danger of ignorance, knowing versus ignorance, death, desire to escape, the fatal love, overcoming a fear, the quest, family, and many other things. In Batman there are the themes of the good versus bad, the fatal love, overcoming a fear, the quest, death, and identity. Batman and Oedipus have one thing in common the fatal/ forbidden love. The archetype of forbidden love is the main theme for these two stories and greatly affects the characters life and how they change throughout the stories of their lives. Oedipus’ tragic love is the most unusual, horrific, tragedy I have ever read in my entire life time. Oedipus has a prophecy bestowed upon him from the great Delphic