Bruce Wayne Research Paper

Bruce Wayne was the only child in his household, living with his parents Thomas and Martha Wayne along with their butler Alfred Pennyworth. Growing up, he had a strong bond with his family as well as a strong friendship with Rachel Dawes, the daughter of one of their domestic servants. Even as an adult, he and Alfred manage to have a close mutual relationship. As a young child, Bruce had also developed a fear of bats, which originated after he was playing with Rachel in their greenhouse and he accidentally fell into a cave where he stumbled onto a massive swarm of bats. This fear was amplified even further when he and his parents were in an Opera House and Bruce sees a Bat like creature on stage and wanted to leave the theatre. Bruce’s stressor
Naturally he was so distraught by the incident, but he felt traumatized to the point where he blames himself for their murder saying that if he hadn’t gotten scared by the bats, this wouldn’t have happened. Alfred is left to take care of him and tells Bruce that his parent’s death was not his fault and was purely a crime on which he had no control. As he grew older, he started feeling less guilty and more angry about the incident. He even freely admits to this by saying “My anger outweighs my guilt (Nolan, C. 2005).” When he attended a hearing that decided whether they would release the man who murdered his parents from prison early or not, Bruce planned to kill him by shooting him without any eye witnesses, but it was too late as somebody else did it for him. When confiding to his friend Rachel, he insisted that his parents deserved justice and that he got what came to him. This stressor affected him to the point that it drove him to consider murdering someone. He even told Rachel “All these years I wanted to kill him. Now I can’t (Nolan, C. 2005).” He never freely talked to anyone close to him after that and he left Gotham to join a vigilante group to begin combat training in order to fulfill his goal of preventing any further crime in