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Is everything that is sold as being the ‗truth', true? If everything that one is told is false, f... more Is everything that is sold as being the ‗truth', true? If everything that one is told is false, fabricated or untrue? Is there a cost at which matters of simple morality are constructed? What might be this cost and more importantly who pays it? Moreover, when does it become imperative to lie and to hide what? Is there something like an evil truth or a righteous lie? Can one sell a murderer as a hero; can one hide immorality under the garb of virtuousness and self-sacrifice? And can anyone justify it? These are some of the questions that the paper would aim at answering by studying how false discourses around matters of ‗heroism' and ‗heroes' are produced which are then further propounded in order to hide the real cost at which this heroism is extracted. In reality can the heroes that one comes to idealise over years, actually be evil? Are discourses around their extraordinary courage created to hide their ordinary degeneracy? Moreover, is their ‗natural' human nature, that is capable of both good and evil, at fault or is it the impulse to categorise them as either of the facets of man's personality, that is responsible? These would be the areas that the paper would study by critically looking at Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, especially by laying special Vasundhara 2 emphasis on its two major characters-Mr Kurtz and Harvey Dent, respectively. For the same, the paper would analyse the different yet similar lies that are being produced in both the works of art by applying Steven McCornack's Information Manipulation Theory and a subsequent work on deceptive discourse production.

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Can heroes, that one comes to idealise over years, actually be evil? Are discourses around their ... more Can heroes, that one comes to idealise over years, actually be evil? Are discourses around their extraordinary courage created to hide their ordinary degeneracy? Moreover, is it their 'natural' human nature that is capable of both good and evil, at fault? Or is it the far more sinister impulse to categorise them as either of these two facets of man's personality that is responsible? These are some of the questions that the paper would aim at answering by studying how false discourses around matters of 'heroism' and 'heroes' are produced which are then further propounded in order to hide the

Is everything that is sold as being the ‗truth', true? If everything that one is told is false, f... more Is everything that is sold as being the ‗truth', true? If everything that one is told is false, fabricated or untrue? Is there a cost at which matters of simple morality are constructed? What might be this cost and more importantly who pays it? Moreover, when does it become imperative to lie and to hide what? Is there something like an evil truth or a righteous lie? Can one sell a murderer as a hero; can one hide immorality under the garb of virtuousness and self-sacrifice? And can anyone justify it? These are some of the questions that the paper would aim at answering by studying how false discourses around matters of ‗heroism' and ‗heroes' are produced which are then further propounded in order to hide the real cost at which this heroism is extracted. In reality can the heroes that one comes to idealise over years, actually be evil? Are discourses around their extraordinary courage created to hide their ordinary degeneracy? Moreover, is their ‗natural' human nature, that is capable of both good and evil, at fault or is it the impulse to categorise them as either of the facets of man's personality, that is responsible? These would be the areas that the paper would study by critically looking at Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, especially by laying special Vasundhara 2 emphasis on its two major characters-Mr Kurtz and Harvey Dent, respectively. For the same, the paper would analyse the different yet similar lies that are being produced in both the works of art by applying Steven McCornack's Information Manipulation Theory and a subsequent work on deceptive discourse production.

Can heroes, that one comes to idealise over years, actually be evil? Are discourses around their ... more Can heroes, that one comes to idealise over years, actually be evil? Are discourses around their extraordinary courage created to hide their ordinary degeneracy? Moreover, is it their 'natural' human nature that is capable of both good and evil, at fault? Or is it the far more sinister impulse to categorise them as either of these two facets of man's personality that is responsible? These are some of the questions that the paper would aim at answering by studying how false discourses around matters of 'heroism' and 'heroes' are produced which are then further propounded in order to hide the