/lit/ - Literature

>>>/co/

how one hero views humanity

suggestion

Well, THEY, being more than one person, do not agree on anything really at all.

/lit/ isn't homework help - fuck off.

Mentioning comics not in the context of a literature discussion - fuck off.

No punctuation....you get the picture.

I would've picked a different topic, since none of Watchmen's themes include an observation of humanity as a whole, but ah well.

By "they", it's better if you pick different characters. Ozymandias is probably the most complicated, given how he feels he needed to save them from themselves. Rorschach is cynical as fuck, Dr. Manhattan has his own thing, etc etc. If that's not enough narrowing down for you you're too stupid to graduate high school.

Compare and contrast how two main characters view humanity.

never mind got a better idea on how the scene where the comedian kills the pregnant woman reflects real life horrors of the Vietnam war

Sounds shit.

Most interesting thing to talk about here would be how the comic itself views humanity. After all, it's a superhero comic in which at least a third of the 'action' involves random guys on the street, two cops, a couple lesbians, a newspaper vendor and a kid reading a comic book...the whole narrative hinges around this one New York intersection and the people who inhabit it, which means that it actually even vaguely matters to the reader when they all die.

>>1181543
i agree with the point you made but im still going to go with mine

Oh we can talk about cartoons on /lit/ now?

1) /lit/ is not here to do your homework.
2) If you can't figure something like this out, you don't deserve access to a computer. Honestly-there are too many options in that novel to write a paper on humanity. Please get the fuck out of here.

>>1181564
>novel
>Watchmen

ozymandias - the ends justifies the means
rorschach - never compromise not even the face of armageddon/those who do wrong need to be punished without exception
comedian - the world's a sick joke, why not be a part of it and enjoy?
nite owl - gotta do good, fight for justice and alll those traditioal ideals.
silk spectre 2 - mother wants me to do it
dr manhattan - bawww i has aspergers

>>1181575
It is technically a novel. "Novel" only refers to word count. If a work has over 50,000 words, it's considered a novel.

>>1181556

Yeah! How are you enjoying the latest Venture Bros episodes?

>>1181556
Why not. Any boondocks fans here?

>>1181603
yeah yeah niqqa

>>1181609
It's probably one of the best shows on television. I love that Aaron McGruder has no problem attacking problems in today's society head on, without giving a shit whom he offends in the process :)

>>1181576
Belongs on /co/. Basically what above e/lit/ist said,... but Manhattan, well it depends on the part of the book you're talking about. After being capable of seeing every minuscule and colossal action on the planet with eyes like a god, he thought man and his issues were so insignificant by comparison. In the end, he realizes there are miracles in how each individual comes to exist the way that they are.

>>1181580

This is one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever read

Watchmen is a limited series and no more a novel than a book collecting Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V is a novel

Kill yourself

>>1181603
I think it's a pretty funny show. Most people I know who have watched it don't quite understand the humor though.

>>1181639
It is a novel in the most technical sense of the term. A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. That is the definition of a novel. Go die in a fire.

>>1181664

>a long narrative in literary prose

Funny I don't remember Watchmen being told in prose

In fact I think there were a bunch of pictures in there somewhere

You should shut the fuck up when you don't know what you're talking about

This was a good thread I'm glad it happened.

>>1181669
If you take away the pictures (obviouslly you're distracted by bright colors-I hear they have pills for ADD now), it IS told in prose. Get your shit together, you stupid pile of shit.

>>1181686

Except half the stories is told through pictures, you dumbfuck. If it could rely solely on prose, it would be a normal novel and not a "graphic" novel

>>1181694
The use of pictures emphasizes the story. If the pictures were not there, it would still tell a story, you moronic shit.

>>1181729
A piece of shit story that no one would read, because the writing is awful. Without pictures it's just idiot scribbling. That's ok for a cartoon. It's not ok for literature.

Watchmen belongs in >>>/co/. If it isn't a standalone piece of writing, it doesn't belong on /lit/.