Levi Strauss believed that the way we understand certain words doesn’t depend on the meaning they directly contain, but by our understanding of the difference between the word and it’s binary opposite. For example, according to Strauss, our understanding of the word “villain” depends on how well we know what the opposing word “hero” means. Binary opposites are used extremely frequently in films, particularly in the horror and action genre. For example, good and evil, sane and insane are examples of binary opposites in those genres.
Batman: The Dark knight is a film that contains many binary opposites. For example, many of the binary2 opposites in the film represent and symbolise both the antagonist and protagonist.
Chaos ( what The Joker represents and later Harvey Dent) versus Order ( what Batman represents and what Harvey used to represent)
Evil (Joker’s Morality) versus Good (Batman’s Morality)
Sane (the citizens of Gotham) verus Insane (Batman and the Joker. Joker’s plan is to prove that Batman, and by extension the world, is just as insane as he is)
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