Self-shipping As Far The Eye Can See

Here I am again…

So if you’ve ever seen the theories people make about all the rouges reflecting exaggerated traits of Batman, and I don’t often see Hatter or if I see Hatter I don’t always agree with it, so here’s my perspective on what he’s supposed to represent

In my opinion, Jervis represents escapism. Bruce Wayne does use escapism via The Batman, out of a desire to protect people, but also to control a situation that he was previously helpless to. He becomes a hero in a way to escape reality of a dire criminal landscape in his home city.

Likewise, Jervis uses escapism into Alice in Wonderland to escape his lonely, drab life of unexciting and unfulfilling work, as well as severe social isolation that ended up driving him mad. He escapes into the Hatter because not only does the hatter have a permanent companion in the March Hare, his life is exciting and unpredictable and he is important in the story. The Hatter even looks like him. It’s everything Jervis wants to be, and everything he doesn’t have in the everyday life. So naturally he clings to the persona and ‘becomes’ him in a resolve to fix all the issues he sees within his own experience.

Both characters use a persona to escape, but the reason Jervis is a warning to Bruce is because he cannot draw a line between reality and his fantasy of being the Hatter. The obsession with control over his life extends to his adaptation of mind control and eventually forcing people to adhere to his perspective of the world by violating their sense of choice. In turn he’s become a selfish, crazed, amoral lunatic who doesn’t care about the wills of other people, only really that they can be bent to his own because of how lost in his own reality he is.

If Bruce lost himself in the role of The Batman eventually it would become selfish, and he would lose his actual empathic reason to save others. Jervis is a direct example of that, and has fallen into the temptation of creating his ‘perfect world’ by ruining lives and destroying the current one

把我的爱丽丝还给我TT…

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