The Cold War, a global issue of the past
and a main issue in the comic book “Watchmen” by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
For many the growth in weapons of mass destruction
was the most worrying issue.
Weapons of mass Destruction, the main
problem, the main issue that persists through time. Still today weapons of mass
destruction are available to the most unpredictable governments.
In the novel “Watchmen” the main issue was
nuclear war. The U. S. and Russian tension was at its highest rank. In the
novel it showed with incredible detail what people thought, heard in the news
papers and tv news. The Cold War propaganda which caused fear and concern.
One of the novels characters Adrian Veidt,
the worlds most intelligent man, and also known as Ozymandias, came up with a
plan to stop this imminent war crisis. Although his plan cost the life of many,
it was not a totally wrong idea. The reader felt that Adrian was the antagonist
of the story, but definitely not considered an “evil” antagonist. He came up
with an alien invasion which would have reunited the worlds most powerful
nations of that time to fight this greater evil.
Personally I wouldn’t have stopped Veidt if
I were living in that time period because the only thing I knew was that the
nuclear war was imminent.
Once again Nuclear weaponing and mass
destruction weapons are one of the world most global issue. After its invention
it has been the most discussed and most delicate topic, which concerns us all.
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It's incredible how much one man affects everyone and everything in the novel.
RispondiEliminaDo you think that sometimes our hopes, ambitions, dreams.. become misguided as we attempt to understand how to realize them? Ozymandias/Veidt really wanted global relations to improve, but did that intense desire overtake all rationality?
Certainly a debatable point of view, the intense desire especially in those day to improve global relations might have overtook rationality. There are too many different points of view to come to a final decision on either he was wrong/right.
EliminaJeff t.W
Yeah, maybe my question does not reflect the complexity of the situation.
EliminaWhen I think about Veidt, I can't help but think of the advertisement on the side of the building on the penultimate page of the novel... his intentions seem at once noble and misguided, but seeing that advertisement just reinforces his arrogance and greed, too.
I love this novel!
I agree with you that nuclear weapon is very dangerous, but I don't feel like Adrian Veidt's plan is correct. His intentions are not bad, even though the way he concluded his ideas are wrong. Do you think weapons are bad in general or only nuclear weapons?
RispondiEliminaI'd say bad in general, but maybe I'm just a softie!
EliminaVery good jeff, I am by your side. Veidt's plan was meant to be positive and more or less accomplished his goal. He thought it was necessary to kill The Comedian as he understood what he was trying to do. At the end he did this to try and stop the Cold War and in some way he avoided it
RispondiEliminaYou've got a point, Freddy P!
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