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Post by lost108 on Oct 18, 2008 16:29:42 GMT -5
...is when at the end of the book when rorsharch asked dr. manhatten to kill him, i dont see why he would do that, did anybody here understand if so then try to explain to me.
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Post by adrianswall on Oct 18, 2008 21:00:03 GMT -5
It was because the fundamental belief which Rorschach clung to as his guiding principle had been shattered. He kept saying "No compromise". That was his mantra. He believed that there was absolute right and absolute wrong, and no middle ground. No shades of Gray. (Just like his mask. The black & white ink swirls between LaTeX but never creates any Gray patches.) The guilty should be punished. Thats his whole philosophy of life.
When Veidt's plan was revealed and the others decided to go along with it, Rorschach faced a crisis. If he let Veidt get away with it, he was violating the principals that he'd lived his whole life by. He couldn't do that. Rorschach is too obsessive to give up his principles. The guilty must be punished! He'd never abandon his private code.
But he knew deep down that he could be doing more harm than good by exposing the truth. He knew that exposing Ozymandais could make him responsible for a war. He realized that there was some sense in what the others decided about keeping mum. And that contradicted his beliefs. Suddenly, for the first time, he couldn't clearly see what the right thing to do was. Although he chose a stance, he had doubts for the first time.
Rorschach couldn't live in a world of Gray's. If he couldn't tell the good guys from the bad guys, he didn't want to live. He had enough trouble finding his place in the world, without the one unshakable belief that kept him going being shattered. His world view fell apart, and he lost the only thing he'd ever really had...His absolute conviction that good and evil were mutually exclusive, and never the twain shall meet. His mantra was "Never compromise" and he chose to die rather than to live in a world of compromise.
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Post by Not a Republic Serial Villain on Oct 18, 2008 21:46:47 GMT -5
Very good explanation of it, I don't think I saw it in that way.
All I knew was Rorschach knew that he couldn't keep quiet, and he couldn't tell the world the truth. He decided the only choice was the choice he made.
He also knew he wouldn't die, as he sent his journal to the newspaper to which he was subscribed, as I understood it. So maybe he thought he could influence others, or just let the world know how he saw things.
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