Violence In Watchmen

In the novel Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, interprets the achievement of order and law through the use of power and violence by superheroes. This novel consists a total of seven different characters to demonstrate how superheroes obtain peace in society through the use of violence. The writer portrays the plot in different characters’ perspectives by guiding readers in their point of view. This motivation also assists readers to examine the loneliness and the feeling of isolation during Dr. Jonathan Osterman, Walter Joseph Kovacs and Laurie Juspeczky’s life experiences. Dr. Jonathan “Jon” Osterman is the only character in the comic who possesses actual superpower and experiences the loneliness through love affair. Jon, who also

Since Rorschach is often alone in his early childhood, he ends up to be asexual. Through the description, readers learn that his coldness is greatly affected by his young memories, although he does not clarify the reasoning. Kovacs learns how to stand up for himself through the accident with two bullies of attacking one of them by “partially blinding him with a lighted cigarette” (VI, 7, 9). Children tend to involve in aggression and assaults without the guidance of parents and loneliness, which is the reason how Kovacs grows up under the influence of violence. This aloneness results in his over-reaction to the world. Despite the fact that Kovacs grows up alone, he partners with Nite owl in 1965 by “bringing street gangs under control” together (VI, 15, 2). Other than Kovacs’s childhood memory, Rorschach’s “face” can also be considered as loneliness. Through the picture of “empty meaningless blackness”, Dr. Malcolm Long mentioned the picture simply means “[they] are alone” and darkness (VI, 28, 6-7). Furthermore, the blackness of the mark can also represent the judgement of evil and how the horrors have turned Kovacs into Rorschach. As the mask consists the color of black and white, it also exhibits how Rorschach views