Sunday, April 5, 2015
The misunderstood psychiatrist???
Rorschach doesn't seem like the man that will ask you about your feelings and listen to your problems. So why has Alan Moore given him the mask of "The Rorschach test"? This test uses Ink blots to determine their personality characteristics of a person. What a person sees in these ink blots help determine their characteristics. In each panel of Watchmen, Rorschach has a different pattern of ink blot. Rorschach is black and white dealing with justice, just like the ink blots. It seems like as soon as he meets someone, he knows there deep thinking and personality. As soon as they look at his mask, Rorschach knows who they are as a person. Another reason for the ink mask might be
the fact that Rorschach is such a complex character that no one knows his personality characteristics.
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Interesting point. It also seems that the black and white analysis of the people he meets is hard to change as well. Rorschach finds it hard to change his opinion or views of the people he meets and so far this is not a good thing when he is dealing with criminals and innocent people.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good point. I think Rorshach, while human and "ordinary" like the other Watchmen (excluding Dr. Manhattan), Rorshach might be closest to a "superhero" of that group. He's so complex, and he gets such good reads of people and their personalities and feeling right off the bat, that he might just have this little something extra that allows him that.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good point. I think Rorshach, while human and "ordinary" like the other Watchmen (excluding Dr. Manhattan), Rorshach might be closest to a "superhero" of that group. He's so complex, and he gets such good reads of people and their personalities and feeling right off the bat, that he might just have this little something extra that allows him that.
ReplyDeleteI find your point on how Rorshach thinks of people as a matter of black or white quite agreeable. He sees people as one of two things. Bad People, and Heroes. There is no in-between. People are either the scum of the earth or are heroes. As a result, he was able to overlook the fact that the Comedian tried to rape another superhero simply because he considered the Comedian a "hero"
ReplyDeleteInteresting point Matt. To add, I think Rorschach's opinion of the people he interacts with is already made. That there is already bad and rotten qualities in everybody. Through their first encounter he shapes his opinion and like Mitchell said his opinion his hard to change once its made.
ReplyDeleteI agree Matt, his mask is obviously very metaphorical for who he is as a character, and demonstrates his personality as well. Not only does the mask describe his different and dark personality, but he also enjoys to analyze other people, and their response to the mask is just what a Rorschach is used for. His blotted mask represents his black and white view on the world, and how the world should see everything the same as Rorschach.
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