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Written by: Badr Almutairi
Edited by: Dr. Alaa Alghamdi
Dexter asks major questions when it comes to issues such as moral conflicts which underly the idea of the series, the idea of fighting evil through evil itself, and does evil justify whether it is harnessed to fight a greater evil? Or does evil turn into good if it’s based on purification?
Intensely highlighting the focus of the story, Dexter’s character.
A blood-spatter analyst at Miami police station ostensibly, and the serial killer nicknamed the Bay Harbor killer. Who also acts as the narrator, and that’s an important factor in the conduct of the recipient’s opinion. Dexter, who suffers from communication disorders, has chosen the recipient (viewer) to be the sole listener of his true voice, creating a high intimacy between them; The recipient, in turn, takes the view of the purged serial killer.
Dexter starts from the first minutes by introducing himself:
“My name is Dexter, Dexter Morgan. I don’t know what made me the way I am, but whatever it was left a hollow place inside. People fake a lot of human interaction, but I feel like I’ve fake them all, and I fake them very well. And that’s my burden.”
A simple description gives the recipient the character’s troubled nature and raises questions about this thing from which he created a psychopathic character and left this void. Dexter lived most of his life ignorant of the answer to his question, discovering his answer with the recipient by the other picture of him (his brother the ice truck killer).
Who deliberately stirred up his brother’s memory until Dexter realized later that everything that had formed his character was a tragic event in his childhood that his memory removed it but remained in his unconscious.
Unconsciousness and the displacement technique in (Harry code)
Freud divided the soul into three sections: The ego (the mind), the id (wishes and desires), the superego (the conscience), And with the human attempt to restrain (the id) because of the (superego).
Passions and desires accumulate until they form a stored in the (unconscious), and until they are satisfied, several defensive mechanisms arise. We mention what matters to us, which is (displacement), which replaces the idea rejected by the superego with a polite idea that can be justified With Dexter who realizes what he has become of this monster, a horrific incident which he went through when he was a little child of three years with his older brother, Two children witnessed their mother being torn apart by an electric saw and then for three days locked in a truck that turned into a (bloodbath). Dexter didn’t realize it because his adoptive father had manipulated his memory to hide what had happened, claiming to protect him. Harry (his adoptive father)
Harry code text
Between the Dark passnger and humanity
Dexter tries to create a balance between his humanity and his dark side, or as he calls it (The dark passenger )On the other hand, we see Dexter struggles as a husband, a brother, a father, and a friend while not ignoring his dark passenger. But once he reached what he had always wished for in the stage of humanity, we find that he realized that this human awareness is nothing but a burden on him.
Dexter talks to himself:
Alaa Alghamdi: Associate Professor of English – Taibah University
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