Malay Batman Returns Blog

Batman admits that there are two truths about himself. What are those two truths and how do they apply to Catwoman and Penguin as well? Make sure you discuss all three characters and scenes to support your blog.

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The two truths that Bruce Wayne admits about himself are as follows:

1.  He is actually Batman which is the most obvious and

2. He has never come to terms with the death of his parents, which is why he feels almost obligated to be Batman.

How these two truths relate to Catwoman is that he is not able to progress in his quasi-relationship with Catwoman because it would violate the idea that superheroes remain celibate and do not become involved with romantic types of relationships.  During the scene when Catwoman and Batman are on the roof there is obvious chemistry between the two and Catwoman acts on her desires more than Batman does by instead of kissing him, licking him like a cat would. This concept can also be applied when Catwoman becomes Selina Kyle during the day. The relationship between Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle is still not completely romantic because there is still any air of wanting to remain celibate from Bruce, but the chemistry is still evident between the two and funny enough more so from Bruce. By night Catwoman seems to be more wanting of a serious relationship and by day it switches to Bruce. Also to be noted is the fact that there seems to be a sense of distance between both Bruce Way and Selina Kyle as well as their alter egos. The distance is not just the desire to remain celibate, but for Bruce specifically the fact that he lost his parents so young contributes, if not the sole reason, for he fact that he is so lonely and distant. Here is a single guy with his butler in a house that could easily fit 20 plus people.  The might also parallel Penguin in that he lives in a huge penguin exhibit and the sewers which themselves are huge and he is still all alone outside of his penguin “family”.

            Penguin, like Batman, was also without parental figures in his life and he grew up as an outcast of society. His motives to find his parents can be paralleled to how Bruce Wayne needs to find closure to the loss of his. Penguin cannot function in society because he is disfigured physically and thus takes his anger out on the society that never accepted him where as Batman is emotionally and psychologically disfigured, however instead of causing destruction and chaos, he prevents it because he feels a moral obligation to. Penguin feels no moral obligation to help society because they rejected him and his own parents failed their moral obligation to love their son and accept him even with his disfigurement.