(urth) OT: watchmen on trial
James Wynn
thewynns at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 9 11:57:23 PDT 2005
>I never once thought that
>Ozy was meant as a persuasive tool or that Dr. Manhattan was enlightened.
>Those of
>you who did think so: are you also convinced that 1984 is a propaganda
>piece written
>by that minister of totalitarianism George Orwell?
Nathan, you are coming in a late and I don't want to restart this
conversation since I have already said that Dan'l and others have a point
(but only if "The Watchmen" is deeply flawed in its storytelling). But you
are the second person to make this analogy with "1984" and while I didn't
respond then, I'll say now that I consider this analogy flawed as well.
"1984" is pretty obviously an intended Tragedy. If "The Watchmen" was meant
as a tragedy then it was verrrrrry subtle and quite ambivalent one. Also,
I've sense remembered that it was not Mr. Manhattan that justified Ozy's
plan (he only murdered the only common man hero in the story), it was Night
Owl who was the character with the primary narrative perspective. If it was
a mistake to take Night Owl's summation of Ozy's plan **at the climax of the
story** as the author's own, then I think it was a forgivable mistake ~ and
I hereby absolve myself. ;-)
~ Crush
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