LIFE IN GOTHAM CITY

MISSION as an explorer:

• Discover what life is like in Gotham City
• Is Gotham City a Platonic Utopia?

What is a utopia?

• A place of ideal perfection, especially in laws, govn't and social conditions
• Ruled by philospher-kings

WHAT IS A PLATONIC UTOPIA?

• Plato believed in triangular politics
• Kings/Guardians came first
• Soldiers /Auxiliaries came next
• Then, at the bottom were the producers

Guardians:

• Only one who should make the laws in a community
• Guided by their reason
• Knowledgeable
• Virtue - wisdom
• Philosopher - Person who seeks wisdom

Auxilaries

• Guided by their spirit
• Courageous, Honorable
• Virtue: Courage
• Enforcers of the law

Producers

• Led by their appetite
• Only want pleasures
• Virtue: Temperance (Denying any alcohol)
• Ones who make the children
• Providers of all needs

Batman:

• Ruled under a corrupt government
• Bane, villain who gets citizens in Gotham city to go against the government
• Batman and the police have to come together to stop Bane's plan to destroy Gotham City
• Bane releases the truth about Gotham city and its corruption

GUARDIANS IN GOTHAM CITY:

GUARDIANS IN GOTHAM CITY: (CON'T)

• They are the only ones who make the rules
• The ones everyone look up to
• The wise ones

Auxiliaries in gotham city:

AUXILARIES IN GOTHAM CITY: (CONt'D)

• Enforce the laws that the Auxiliaries create
• Fight for the city and for the city's well-being
• Honorably give their life for their city
• ie. when Batman was stabbed by Bane near the end of the movie

Producers in Gotham city:

PRODUCERS IN GOTHAM CITY: (CONT'D)

• They provide all the tax money
• Make Gotham a city
• Led by their appetite when they side with Bane for their own well-being
• and when they Agree to kill other people on the boat to save their own lives

TAKE AWAYS:

• Gotham city has characteristics of plato's ideal society
• Plato prefers a republican government (people's government) and this kind of govn't is the one promised to Gotham citizens
• Gotham city seems like a good place for Plato's kind of government and forms to take place
• All characters in the movie work together to get rid of crime and bring justice
• Anne Hathaway (Cat-woman) in the end stops caring about herself and puts her community before her own life

GOAL ACCOMPLISHED!