Monday, April 6, 2015
blog post about rorschach
I initially felt betrayed when Rorschach was unmasked. It felt out of place because, unlike the other living characters, he had not ceased his vigilante activites and took a much less human approach to the world: he was more easily identifiable as a "superhero" because of the lack of break in his character and his two dimensionality. Feeling uncomfortable when Walter Kovacks didn't match the expectations I had developed for the character-- even the height--meant I had forgotten the comic's purpose was deconstruction of the hero and bought too much into the persona.
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I feel that Rorschach's unmasking and capture at the end of Chapter 5 was meant to be the shock factor that kept readers reading rather than a break in his character meant to humanize him since the events in Chapter 6 reveal how his character has gotten more depraved and is not really different from his superhero persona.
ReplyDeleteI'm in agreement your views about rorschach. When he was unmasked, it was a transition between him being a hidden figure who judged people in a black and white sense, to him being seen more as human and having more depth to his story
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ReplyDeleteWhat I find curious is that Rorschach does not show any emotion other than the times that he is being unmasked and during his flashback to his childhood, before Rorschach. It shows that Rorschach is not the part of him that shows emotion. It is only Kovac. Rorschach never feels, and now that he is learning to live without his mask, Kovac is disappearing.
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