The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

Essay Requirements

In three pages, you will address the various social contract philosophers, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, and how their philosophies are depicted and portrayed in the film The Dark Knight. You can choose one of three structures for your paper. 1. Compare Batman to Jean Jacques Rousseau, the Joker to Thomas Hobbes, and Harvey Dent/Two-Face to John Locke; OR 2. Describe how the philosophy of one (1) of the social contract philosophers is shown in Batman, the Joker, or Harvey Dent/Two-Face; OR 3. Describe how one character shows the philosophies of all three social contract philosophers, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

Your paper will be graded on your writing and arguments, specifically your synthesis of the information in class and the film. To do this well, use specific examples from class lectures, notes and assignments with specific examples from the film.