Batman's motivation
Apart from his nightmares there are other features explaining why Batman is aiming to build himself this terrible monument killing Superman.
There is of course the fact that Superman actually threatens him telling him to stop unless he will kill him.
Alfred pronounces it and when I was watching it for the second time in the Netherlands at least one child was repeating it "powerlessness". The feeling of powerlessness lets some people resort to cruelty in order to protect their community, their family. And this sentence "You let your family die" written on the returned cheque and the destruction of the Capitol Hill is what finally is bound to drive Bruce Wayne over the edge - Lex Luthor really is cleverly pulling the strings and he needs to know a hell of a lot. Having witnessed Superman's powers - mainly the destructive ones - and being traumatised by this experience Bruce Wayne is not willing to watch his family die once again - his family here being not only his relatives or his employees, but his nation or humanity as a whole, even if there was only a one percent possibility that this might happen. His motives are noble and the fact that he is putting his life on the line is also, yet I got the idea that he also realises that this monument he is about to errect isn't a happy or joyous one. Maybe one that more suits the criminal he perceives himself to have turned into.
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