Allusions

=media type="youtube" key="onpD6rHlYG8" width="560" height="315" __**THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY**__= The Dark Knight trilogy is a modern day A Tale of Two Cities. Gotham is crime ridden similar to France during the revolution and how England is ending up. The film focuses around dualities and the concept of dark vs light as well. The Joker becomes Batman's inverse, and since they wont kill each other, they're destined to have a never-ending feud. The Joker just wants to "watch the world burn" which is similar to what Madame Defarge wants. She is driven by a crazed vengeance to watch all of the noble's burn. Batman also sacrifices himself for the sins that Harvey Dent commits by taking all of the blame so the world will still honor him as a hero. Batman also sacrificed himself for the sins of Gotham, as well as Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne can finally have a normal life and return to a human instead of a superhero. In the third movie, he is a waste and a depressed mess (Carton). It is up to him to make his own resurrection, either Batman physically dies which ends Wayne's life, or only Batman dies and Wayne lives. Batman embodies a Christ-like figure as well.


 * "Though he was in the form of God**
 * he did not deem equality with God something to be grasped.**
 * Rather he emptied,**
 * taking on the form of a slave,**
 * being found in human likeness.**
 * And being found in human form,**
 * he humbled himself,**
 * and became obedient unto death,**
 * even death on a cross."**
 * --Letter to the Philippians, Chapter 2.**


 * Quotes:**
 * “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” – Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight
 * “Some men aren’t looking for anything logical like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.” -Alfred in The Dark Knight
 * “It’s not who we are underneath, but what we do that defines us.” -Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins
 * People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy, and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I’m flesh and blood; I can be ignored, I can be destroyed. But as a symbol… as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting. – Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins
 * Do you think that it will seem long to me, while I wait for her in the better land where I trust both you and I will be mercifully sheltered? I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both. I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up in that path of life which once was mine. I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his. I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. I see him, foremost of just judges and honoured men, bringing a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place— then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigurement— and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and a faltering voice. Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind. ** It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. - ** James Gordon

=__**media type="youtube" key="-L1vxYBUbd8" width="420" height="315" A TALE OF TWO SPRINGFIELDS**__= The plot is mostly about two different parts of one town who are only separated by an area code. They begin to think their own side is better, and chaos rings through both sides as they become rivals. It is similar to how the aristocracy and peasants thought they were so different, but in reality they were closer than originally thought. The revolutionaries took power and became just as savage and cruel as the nobles.

=__**References from //A Tale of Two Cities//**__=

The name of the strong man of Old Scripture" (Samson of the Bible)

"The Cow with the crumpled horn in the house that Jack built" (The House that Jack built..)

"I am the resurrection and the life..." (John 11:25-26)

"Still of to-morrow's and to-morrow's" (Macbeth)

"It seemed as if the Creation were delivered over to death's dominion" (Romans 6:9)

"The suicidal vengeance of the revolution was to scatter them all to the winds" (Ezekiel 17:21)

"We shall meet again where the weary are at rest" (Job 3:17)

"But my husband has his weaknesses" (Macbeth)

"Churches that are not my father's house but dens of thieves" (Mark 11:17)