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Rorschach uses psychology to intimidate and scare anyone he thinks is evil because his fight is with anyone who preys on the innocent. Rorschach’s mask has significant importance to his character and the representation of science portrayed through him. Before he became Rorschach he was Walter Kovacs. Like most Watchmen he has no special powers. Most of them are extremely skilled at fighting with whatever they can find and have trained their entire lives to be in peak human condition. Rorschach uses his connection to psychology to help him outsmart criminals and protect himself. His mask is one of the ways he intimidates criminals. The blank face is known in comic books as a way to seem disturbing or even not human, but even though Rorschach
When his mask was taken off by the police he said it was his face. When taken to a maximum security prison Rorschach finds himself in the middle of a reunion with most of the men he has put in prison, but instead of trying to stay under the radar he decides to make a statement. During lunch he grabs a serving tray of hot food and tosses it onto the man behind him and then he says, "None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me"(Moore 194). As to reiterate his reputation of never being scared by any situation and to portray that he is not afraid of his situation. With the use of his mask and scare tactics Rorschach uses psychological warfare against his
Veidt is fashioned like a hero, but acts like a villain. He can be misinterpreted as a villain but in fact is a superhero. His plan that can be considered both good and evil is to save the world, “the cost in millions, is slight when compared to the billions whom Ozymandias believes that he has saved” (Robinson 101 FROM BOOK NO SOURCE). His plan is to trick the U.S. and the Soviet Union into thinking that there is an alien monster and the only way to defeat it is to make peace with one another and focus on the alien that could end their entire world. Before Veidt is able to execute his plan Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan and Nite Owl try and stop him. Veidt convinces Dr. Manhattan and Nite Owl that this is the best way to stop the cold war, but Rorschach, who believes in everything that will harm good and innocent people is evil, says he will tell the world about Veidt’s plan. Dr. Manhattan is then forced to kill him to preserve the peace that Veidt’s plan will create. To prove that the alien is real to them Veidt kills three million people in New York City to save billions. His plan does work and the entire world defeats the alien monster. Veidt’s manipulation of countries and Watchmen is a direct exploit of their minds through the use of a fake alien life form that brought billion
Julius Caesar is mentioned throughout the book, A Long Way Gone, many times. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael would be reading Julius Caesar or a soldier would be reciting some of the speeches in the play. In Chapter 12 of A Long Way Gone, Ishmael is called over to talk with Lieutenant Jabati. Then, Lieutenant Jabati showed Ishmael the book he was reading, which was Julius Caesar, and asked Ishmael if he had ever heard of the book. Ishmael had read the book in school, and began to recite a speech from the book. After this happened, Lieutenant Jabati and Corporal Gadafi used emotional arguments to motivate the people in the village to stay there and support the military. Also, Lieutenant showed all the people in the village dead bodies to help
...t is the Rorschach test of what is inside of a person. One work can touch or go unnoticed by its audience; it projects their “secret lives” (159).
The final test that I administer is called the Faux-Rorschach test. This test is constructed of three inkblot pictures and it intends to analyze a person’s emotional functioning. As I handed Steven each inkblot picture I asked him, “What may this be? His response for the first inkblot picture was, “This is two aliens doing the Nae Nae and they are both having babies at the same time while doing the Nae Nae.” I added, “What is the Nae Nae?” and he responded, “The NaeNae is a dance.” I then asked him to show me where he saw that. This was a really interesting response because it seem like Steven incorporated movement that doesn’t really exist. This is a sign of creativity because I was able to see his perspective after he pointed the picture out to me.When I handed him the next inkblot his response was, “This is an alien jumping towards me because he wants to attack me. I then asked him if he could show me where he saw that. He pointed at the picture and said, “These are his legs and his pulling his feet up because he is jumping towards me and the arms are out because he wants to grab me and take me down. And these are his foot prints from when he jumped.” I noticed Steven seemed to have a theme and that was unrealistic creatures. This makes me believe that he may be misunderstood and feels attacked by others. His final response to the last inkblot picture was, Steve: “These are two devils that are
Whenever someone is wearing a mask or has a painted face, evil is at large. The very purpose of a mask is for hiding. The boys use the masks to hide their lust for blood, killing, and death from their consciences. When going to hunt for the first time, "Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness" (Golding page #) because he knew that his manner of hunting was evil and would only lead to lascivious killing. While describing that hunt to the boys, Jack was "twitching" and "shuddering" as he talked. He knew it was wrong. Eventually all the savages hid behind their masks when their lust for killing climaxes on the manhunt for Ralph. Throughout the story, all hunting, killing, and shedding of blood was done while the boys faces were hidden by masks.
Before looking at the concept of the ends justifying the means, it is important to understand just how different the characters of Rorschach and Ozymandias are from each other. Rorschach is strongly right wing, even to the point of fascism. He believes that "the whole world stands on the brink, starring down into bloody hell, all the liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers"(Volume 1 page 1) Rorschach is also an ardent subscriber to the New Frontiersman, a right-wing conspiracy magazine. Ozymandias is an extremely rich philanthropist, who once gave his entire fortune to charity. Ozymandias was the first of all the super heroes to go public, two years before heroes were required to unmask themselves by law. Rorschach never went public, choosing to live as an outlaw rather than give up his identity. Ozymandias is considered by many to be the most handsome man in the world, while Rorschach is an ugly man who does not even bathe on a regular basis. Ozymandias runs an international conglomerate, while Rorschach does not have enough money to pay his rent. These differences present the reader with two extremely different characters, their only similarities being their staunch belief that the ends justify the means.
The Situational Stress domain evaluates whether or not an individuals’ responses on the Rorschach are caused by situational factors. Ms. M’s results suggested that
It is understandable to think that Rorschach is the most influential character in Watchmen, however it is clearly The Comedian due to his incredible influence of all the characters and the fact that his death sets the main plot in motion. Though his heroic code is not as strong and stable as Rorschach’s, The Comedian understands the world perfectly, but “he doesn’t care” (Moore, 4.19). Both of these characters saw the “true face” of this reality, one just fought against it while the other became a parody of it.
The most interesting character in Watchmen is Walter Kovacs, also known as Rorschach. He grew up with an extremely abusive mother and without his father, who he knew very little about. Kovacs was also bullied as a child, thus ruining his faith in other people. In this case, it was not Kovacs that voluntarily ignored optimism, he was forced to live and grow up in (what seemed like) Hell-on-earth. That whole experience just turned him into something different that no one had ever seen, something fierce and emotionless. Like he said, “Saw the world’s black underbelly and never surrendered. Once a man has seen, he can never turn his back on it.” The moment he truly turned into Rorschach was when he found out about what happened to Kitty Genovese. She was raped, tortured, and killed while almost 40 neighbours did nothing to help. Instead of trying to get his life to a point where he had a 9-5 job and a family to take care, he focused on what he thought was right; punishing criminals for the horrible things they have done, no questions asked. For example, after finding the hideout of a man who had kidnapped a child, Kovacs realized that the bone the two German Shepherds were fighting over was a human bone; the little girl had been fed to the dog...
The author makes us question if Ozymandias was right to kill all those people to save the rest and stop a war. On page 27 of the last chapter in moment-to-moment panels that emphasize the stillness of time, Ozymandias tells Dr. Manhattan that he felt every death, but someone had to do it. He justifies the evil he did by saying it was for the best. There was no other option in his mind, kind of like how Rorschach show no compromise with the death of all the people. But then Dr. Manhattan tells him, “ Nothing ever ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.” This shows that there is still hope for something better even with the death of lots of
...ce and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing of its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness” (64) This quotes shows the effects of the mask and how it transforms them into beast. The masks of face paint show their liberation from morals and civilization permanently turning them into their true forms.
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
real reason he got blind. He knows that seeing the eclipse without protection wasn't the
Historically, crime and criminals have always caught the attention of law-abiding citizens. Whenever there is mention of serial killers or unsolved murders or abductions, psychological profiling, now a household term, floats to the top of the list of concerns (Egger, 1999). Psychological profiling is an attempt to provide investigators with more information about an offender who has not yet been identified (Egger, 1999). Its purpose is to develop a behavioral composite that combines both sociological and psychological assessment of the would-be offender. It is generally based on the premise that an accurate analysis and interpretation of the crime scene and other locations related to the crime can indicate the type of person who could have committed the crime (Egger, 1999).
The purpose of a mask is to hide everything that is wrong by not showing it in the slightest. Not even that makes anything better for the mask user and will NOT solve anything for them. A short-term solution will not solve a long-term problem and can make the situation worse. Characters like Avis in the novel “We Are Called To Rise” use a variety of masks to hide the variety of problems in their lives. In the novel, Laura McBride uses Avis and their use of an emotional avoidance mask to demonstrate that she purposely hides how she really feels by showing no strength or emotion.
Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist, conducted an experiment in 1963 about human obedience that was deemed as one of the most controversial social psychology experiments ever (Blass). Ian Parker, a writer for the New Yorker and Human Sciences, and Diana Baumrind, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, responded to Stanley Milgram’s experiment. These articles represent how the scientific community reviews and scrutinizes each other’s work to authenticate experiment results. Baumrind focuses on the moral and ethical dilemma while, Parker focuses more on the experiment’s actual application.