Analysis Of The Internal Struggles Of Nite Owl And Batman

Putting the Mask Back On: An Analysis of the Internal Struggles of Nite Owl and Batman â€Å"Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.† Author Steven Presfield denotes here that there is usually an internal struggle in us, and the resistance between what we have and what we want to have. Some people will develop more resistance than others, however. Masked heroes possess this problem the most as they have to lead lives that are almost mutually exclusive, however difficult that may be. The best illustrations of this concept come in the form of Daniel Dreiberg, better known as the Second Nite Owl, accompanied by Bruce Wayne, better known as Batman. Both of these heroes took a hiatus from hero work, and then had to struggle as to decide whether or not to take back on their hero identities, causing an internal struggle relating to their identity. Both heroes have the internal struggle, however the origins and resolutions of those struggles come from different places. Prior to the events of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, both Dan Dreiberg and Bruce Wayne had time when they went and fought crime under their assumed identities, then they thusly retired. Dan hung up his costume after the passage of the Keene Act, which outlawed any type of costumed vigilantism unless it was government sponsored, which placed him in a forced retirement. Bruce retired the Batman as he had gotten too old to warrant his continued