In the story initial onset Dexter is born in 1971 and Harry Morgan, a detective in Miami adopts him after lying to him that his parents were involved in a tragic road accident (Petersen, 2007). In the show, Dexter can recall the crime scene of the brutal murder of his mother and that of his brother who is a partner in crime. When Dexter is seven years old, Harry discovers Dexter habit of killing pets and decides to channel his homicidal tendencies in a positive way to kill murderers who deserve death (Ruark, 2013). This is because some of these people often escape justice. In Dexter Is Delicious,
Dexter kills his brother Brian to avoid his perpetration of killing innocent people in Miami.
Dexter uses the Code of Harry to select a victim for murder after satisfactory evidence that the person is guilty of murder. The Deter television show portrays the antihero character approaching the victims from behind and injecting them with an animal tranquilizer that renders them unconscious (Howard, 2010). He gets these drugs from Bateman a serial killer protagonist. In other instances, Dexter can use hands or a garrote to cut the victims supply of blood going to the brain. At the age of puberty, Dexter has no interest in social interaction with women but has an urge for homicidal tendencies (DePaulo, 2010). This makes Morgan to direct this tendency in a positive way to kill deserved people
Dexter is a fictional character in the television series who is an antihero that goes around killing other murderers in Miami and evades the justice system (DePaulo, 2010). Dexter uses Code of Harry as a principle elaborated to him by his paternal father Harry Davis. Dexter manages to murder people after satisfying they are guilty of perpetrating murder. He succeeds in killing these kinds of people and concealing all the evidence to ensure the law does not apprehend him.
The series first season emanates from Darkly Dreaming Dexter novel in 2004 (Ioana, 2013).As a young boy. Dexter has a conscious voice of Dark Passenger to carry out homicide and tries a lot to ignore that voice. The Dark Passenger voice conquers him; this leads him to kill other murderers by abiding to a code of ethics illustrated to him by his adoptive father Harry. Dexter does not consider himself to have an emotional reaction as a human like all the other beings (Howard, 2010).
Dexter has an insufficient self that is only happy at the event he kills other killers. Dexter argues that his feelings and emotions are dead as he tries to hide his true self. Dexter considers his relationship with Bennett his wife is a disguise since he derives no joy in that relationship. The show depicts Dexter’s love for the children in the way he brutally murders victims who prey children. He enjoys the company of his children more than he enjoys the company of his wife (Petersen, 2007). Dexter notes that his children are likely to develop similar tendencies as his own and offers them the Harry guidance (Ruark, 2013).
In the show, animals do not like Dexter. For instance, his own barks and growls at him until he gets rid of it while the turtle hides in the shell to avoid Dexter until it die due to starvation. . Morgan teaches Howard on how to conceal evidence to ensure the law does not apprehend him for his misdeeds. Dexter experiences conversation of Dark Passage with his late adopted father Morgan and the advice of killing and navigating his own life.
According to Ruark (2013) Dexter settles in a stable life an analyst in Metropolitan Police Department in Miami during the day and night he fashions his serial killing activities at night. Dexter’s episode 1 show elaborates that he has an urge that is satisfied upon the killing of murderers.
References
DePaulo, B. (2010). The psychology of Dexter. S.l.: BenBella.
Howard, D. L. (2010). Dexter investigating cutting edge television. London: I.B. Tauris ;.
Ioana, I. M. (2013). No One is Born a Serial Killer!. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 81, 324-328.
Petersen, L. R. (2007). Specter of a serial killer. Nature Medicine, 13(1), 23-23.
Ruark, J. E. (2013). A chilling view into the mind of a serial killer.. psycCRITIQUES, 58(49), 68-77.
