Characters of Watchmen

The Two Defining Categories of Characters Everyone has a different way of reacting and dealing with death. Some people buckle and fall to their knees, while others fight through the fear and grief. This difference separates characters into two categories: tough characters and soft characters. Soft characters are not weaker than their tough counterparts, but they have less experience with death and the darkness of the world. The characters in the tough group have become unfazed by death because of their exposure to the worst things in life. Often these people are unaffected by the prospect of their own death, and participate in daring feats of bravery despite the dire consequences. The way that people react to death separates people into two…

Watchmen, a graphic novel written by Alan Moore, tells the story of a group of masked heroes during a tense moment in the midst of the Cold War. Within the chapters, we are introduced to a multitude of characters and the relationships they maintain between each other. Through these, we are shown how individual perspectives and characteristics can be affected by the influences of those we are close to. Doctor Manhattan changes his opinion on human society after an in-depth conversation with…

Without images…how could a graphic novel like “Watchmen” exist? Images allow the reader to be taken on a crazy ride through the lives, and stories of the characters all while using both words and images to create a new type of language for the reader to learn. Images, like stated in McCloud matter. In the novel, images are what make the material being read so appealing. Immediately on Page 1, the reader is exposed to a non-sensory image of a blood stained sidewalk which grasps attention right…

individual, the society, the god The Watchmen is an extremely interesting comic that shows a pessimistic view on society. I think it plays on what of the most interesting topics of morality, which is if morality is subjective, or if there is an absolute morality. One side sees the world as a black and white, his absolute code is unflattering and will never change. Rorschach is the character of extreme moral rigidness. Even when he is confronted with the world returning to war he decides that it…

The Long Halloween, and Watchmen, are very similar in some areas, and very different in some areas. Both books describe the hardships with being a super heroes, such as dealing with death of innocents, betrayed, misconceptions on some people. The Long Halloween still kept the superhero tradition of solving a mystery, beating the bad guy in a unique way, but at the same time, still following the typical tradition. Watchmen has a hero(es) that is trying to solve a mystery of the killings of mask…

The monster theory topic was another way of thinking about the watchmen story for me. The group assumed some main characters of the watchmen story as monster and tried to evaluate and analyses them using the monster theory “Seven Theses”. The group mentioned a clear thesis and continued to prove it throughout the presentation. Most of characters chosen to present perfectly much the theses. For example, Dr. Osterman is perfect much for the 7th thesis considering following part of the definition…

The Comedy of Nothingness: Nihilism of the Comedian in Watchmen In Alan Moore and Gave Gibbons’ 1986 comic Watchmen, a recurring theme throughout the novel is the use of Nihilism. I will be doing a close reading/literary analysis of how nihilism is reflected and used in the comic Watchmen. I will argue that doing a close reading of the character The Comedian in Watchmen, I can show how the philosophy of Nihilism is reflected not only in the comic but how that connection is represented in present…

Each and every one of the masked adventurers in Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, are very different. Each character grew up differently and is motivated by something different that leads their perceptions on right and wrong. For example, Rorscharch, Walter Kovacs, and the Comedian, Edward Blake, seem like polar opposites, yet they are very similar. Neither character was well liked by the other masked adventurers/vigilantes. Both characters remained focused on what they perceived as…

The Film Adaptation of the “Unfilmable” Watchmen In 2009, Zack Snyder filmed the first and only adaption of what was considered to be an “unfilmable” (Van Ness 172) graphic novel: Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Moore was a firm believer in the fact that it was a story unable to be transferred over from a comic to another medium – the story was meant to stay in the medium it was designed for. The graphic novel allows for a complex, metatextual narrative structure to be employed to tell such the story of…

supports their grand ideal. Do they really bring the peace to the world? I think I can break this problem into two parts which is hero’s limit and the peace in the society. In the Hero’s limit part, I will mainly use the Watchmen (movie) and Gintama(Animation) to illustrate about what hero is able to do and what we are able to do for our justice. In the…