Characters of Watchmen

Nocenti uses the pathos Aristotelian appeal by stating, “Female characters were absolutely seen as secondary,” she says. “I can’t tell if I was just oblivious to sexism and misogyny, but I don’t remember any weird feelings. Not at all. But you would try a female character and the sales would go down. It’s a chicken-and-egg thing.” (12). What she means by that is that the mentality that they had while creating these type of characters was just to focus on male and not female because of sexism and…

In the first chapter of Alan Moore’s graphic novel, Watchmen, a masked vigilante named Rorschach utilizes violence and pain as a method of achieving results. His method confirms and extends a few of the theories mentioned in Harvard professor Elaine Scarry’s published study, The Body in Pain. Rorschach’s violence on pages twenty-three and twenty-four of Watchmen stems from his mission to find out who brutally murdered Edward Blake, a fellow vigilante also known as “The Comedian”. Rorschach…

Watchmen in graphic novel form does an amazing job at presenting many different themes about ethics, the weight of war, and even drawing to light how well the different aspects of graphic novels can work together. While the themes, and main plot of the novel and film are similar, some pieces of the story are either lost, or completely thrown away. In “Watchmen As Literature”, Sanders discusses how each aspect, especially the visual aspects in a novel like Watchmen is planned carefully, and not…

satisfied. When she is done with him, she moves on to Dan and becomes sexually active with him. In Watchmen, America won the Vietnam War. In this alternative reality, women’s liberation did not happen. Laurie is representative of this. She is being used as a sexual object and it is okay. In our reality, women fought to change this. Also, in the novel, Laurie has some sort of crack pipe. After the Vietnam War, drugs were focused on. Laurie is out in the open smoking like it is perfectly legal.…

Presented in a complex world, where the discrepancy between a righteous hero and an evil villain is often misconstrued, Alan Moore’s Watchmen does a brilliant job at portraying his sordid depiction of twentieth century life. Unlike most other comics Watchmen was based on realistic sexual activities and feelings, political situations, and a superheroes realistic effect on the world they live in. The book begins eight years after the Keene Act was passed, which was a law that outlawed all masked…

Makenzie Smith White Graphic Novels October 18, 2015 The Portrayal of Women in Watchmen In Alan Moore’s epic graphic novel, Watchmen, we are presented with only a few female characters. A disproportionate number of characters in the novel are men; even in the background, men dominate the story. Though they are few and far between, the female characters in the novel are varied, complex individuals, with their own personalities, who play pivotal roles in the plot of the story. However, Moore’s…

fans, they always have a direct purpose. I've always found the Nixon scenes in Watchmen to be far too removed from the rest of the story to be enjoyable, I know those scenes where in the comics, but there were more of them and they were more developed. Is there any information in these scenes that we could not have gleaned from somewhere else? Could the information have more emotional impact or connection to the characters if it came from another source? Most filmmakers would avoid using Nixon…

V, the eponymous character of V for Vendetta by Alan Moore serves as the enigmatic anti-hero of the story who rebels against the oppressive rules of an unjust system by using violent and unconventional methods to do so. The anti-hero typically wields the personality of a sinister…

immortal, and great strength, amazing ability, does he really every day so selfless it? According to the human point of view, unlikely. Not just Captain America, even Superman, Batman, they are the same. According to the article “Who Watches the Watchmen?” the author supports that superheroes could just depend on their self and do their own things. “Some, like Batman and Superman, choose to work with the government or the police to apprehend criminals, but it is done out of necessity, not…

The dictionary definition of a symbol is, “a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process.” In Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, there are an unlimited amount of symbols and motifs. The book is an adventure novel, narrating a tale of pirates and treasure, it is typically considered a coming of age story. One of the main symbols is the map. Billy Bones is a character within the first of the novel and among his things, Jim and his mother…