What Is The Theme Of Hopelessness

In the book “Watchmen” by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, it forces the readers to focus on an aspect that they’d rather not think about: the hopelessness of it all. That, no matter what we do or what we say, it will not actually stop major disasters from happening. That, no matter how much love and hope strives to live in this world, it doesn’t always stay that way. For the book as a whole, one of the major themes that sticks out is how everything is hopeless and that there really is no use in resisting what’s going on the world, especially if you are only one person against the whole world.
One of the characters that definitely shows and tries to explain how there is no use in fighting the way that things are going to be is Dr. Manhattan. The most interesting thing is that this isn’t …show more content…
However, in “Watchmen”, almost hope is lost, and the people can feel it. Between a man killing his two kids so they won’t have to see how the world will corrupt them and gang members easily killing an elderly man in his home, they all are feeling the effects of hopelessness and they don’t know what to do about it. The difference between the civilians and the superheroes is that the civilians are just now realizing how their hope is lost while the superheroes have known all along. They’ve known for years how the world would go downhill as no one was there to save them all, but they still all agreed to retire and let other people take care of the problem. The loss of hope is everywhere in the book and becomes a central theme that the reader would rather not think about because we love believing in the idea that there is always another way and that these people are just crazy and won’t make the right decision. However, that is not the case. They are surrounded by hopelessness and decide that there is no use in doing something halfway or subtly, might as well go all out and mess with the world a