Philosophies In Alan Moore's Watchmen

Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, illustrates the consequences of one attaining power in order to save the world from danger. There are three characters who have different philosophies in which they believe can save the world from destroying themselves. Ozymandias believed that to save the world from danger, there should be a mass murder of people on earth, in order to save billions. Rorschach believed that, “There is good, and there is evil, and evil must be punished.” Dr. Manhattan philosophy is to let time happen because time is irrelevant. Ozymandias, Rorschach, and Doctor Manhattan seems to have different philosophies of saving the world from danger but somehow ends up becoming the opposite of who they really are as power overtakes them. Therefore, who are the “heroes” in the Watchmen?

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He believes that the world is only seen as black and white and no mix of grey- that bad people will always perform unethical actions and good people will always have good morals.Through Rorschach’s rough childhood of witnessing his mother prostituting, children bullying, and finding remains of a little girl, formed his viewpoint of human nature as a unblending idealism of a black and white world. Rorschach states “‘God doesn’t make the world this way. We do.” Thus, for the world to be saved, he believed that evil should be destroyed. Therefore, with his black and white perspective, he truly main his ideology that bad people should be punished. Like Ozymandias, how can Rorschach be embodied as a “hero” if he gruesomely tortured the wrong for performing criminal acts and later declared “Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turned under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.” With Rorschach’s sensational pleasure of mutilating evil, made him become the black perception he views in human