The Penguin, Morality, and Means-Ends Relations (2025)

Martin, J. (2025, February 17). The Penguin’s Ends, Means, and Morality.

• Draws on often-integrated scholarship on the development of social and moral judgments to provide a lens to potentially understand Oz’s developmental influences on his criminal arc in The Penguin television series.

• Focuses on the role of means-ends relations, mental coordination, and understanding others in moral development more broadly, and its potential implications for understanding his actions.

“By broadly situating Oz’s transition from a young aspiring criminal to a ruthless crime boss within a developmental context, The Penguin…invites us to consider the role of means-ends relations in the morally-relevant actions committed in the show, and how this relationship may inform some of the decisions we may make in our own lives.”