How Does Alan Moore Use Names In Watchmen

The first thing to address while discussing the author’s purpose is to examine the motivation of the main character, Raskolnikov. In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov becomes an ubermensch, and part of this is that he does not take into account

Gretchen Brandt was a subject in the experiment who supported Milgram's and other psychologists' predictions regarding the outcome. She demonstrated that a person with a resolute state of mind would use their moral judgment and not inflict pain on another person. Throughout Brandt's experiment, the learner complained about the shocks, stating he had a heart condition. After Brandt administered 210 volts, she told the experimenter that she didn't believe they should continue. The experimenter calmly instructed her to continue until the learner had learned all the word pairs correctly. Brandt was firm with her decision and stated she believed the shocks were hurting the learner. She refused to administer any more shocks, and the experiment ended.

Through the character Rorshach, The Watchmen explores the issues of nature verses nurture for him. Moore adds that a super hero, can be a psychological argument. A super hero is neither born nor shaped by environment, it is the creation of an alter ego to suppress childhood conflicting inner issues. Rorshach dealt with issues as a young child that rationalized in his mind to hide behind a costume and a mask in order to live.

Epitomizing the idea of an abyss that will inevitably envelope the world, the symbolism of Rorschach's mask works to comment on skewed identity as a catalyst of societal destruction. Struggling to find comfort in his identity as Walter Joseph Kovacs, the character was Rorschach was created, creating a face that “[he] could bear to look at in the mirror”. Being an individual capable of “feeling the dark planet under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies at night”, Rorschach saw the world for what it is, not the facade put up to hide societal complications. Consequently, Rorschach, or at the time Kovacs, could no longer live with the identity of an acceptor of the doomed nature of the world, creating a new identity that would “Even in the face of Armageddon, I shall not compromise”. Creating such character from an “ugly” dress of a murdered victim of society, Kovacs crafted the mask that would allow him to deter the world from the “evils that exist within mankind” Kovacs, through this newly formed identity was capable of living a double life, his identity as Rorschach becoming the one that he connected with the most, this new character becoming his “real face”. Ultimately this strong association with Rorschach, rather than his given identity Kovacs emphasizes the idea of identity as a motivator for world doom. Becoming Rorschach allowed Kovacs "to scrawl own design on this morally blank world ”, or work in an attempt to save the world from the “destiny that feeds them [us] to the dogs”. Through such temporarily successful action, Kovacs become more and more attached to the identity of Rorschach, saying that the mask became “his face” and that when he removes himself from the character Rorschach, he no longer has an identity, saying that without his face “nobody knows who I am, without my face nobody knows”. As a matter of fact, the idea of Kovacs no longer exists in this new identity of Rorschach,

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It is often that authors tend to randomize the names they select for their characters and that is exactly the case in teresa toten’s the unlikely hero of room 13b . Toten’s Novel features two dynamic characters named adam and robyn. Upon researching the meanings of both of the characters’ names, it occurred to me that the names given to these character’s didn’t quite match up to their specific character traits. for example, adam means “man”, “ earthly” or “to be red”. none of these meanings quite suit adam as a character, and they don’t go along with him in any way shape or form. even if one were to further research the meaning of “adam”, you would simply become bombarded with a bunch of biblical references. many articles referred to adam as being “the beginning” or some sort of creator,and in a way this can relate in the novel. In the Novel adam sort of “creates” a bond between the members of his support group. adam was the link the support

129,864,880 unique books have been published in the world to date. Hundreds of millions of characters, themes, plots, and settings. Each individual book has it’s own writing style, such as things like the author's’ use of literary devices to develop theme. In The Scarlet Letter and The Other Wes Moore, the authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Wes Moore, happen to both use identical literary devices to develop and support a common theme between the 2 out of 130 million different books in the world. The literary devices that are used in both novels alike, consist of vivid imagery and direct characterization. Authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Wes Moore use similar literary devices in their writing to support a common theme between the two books, The Other Wes Moore and The Scarlet letter, that beauty can come from mistakes, in the case of Pearl in The Scarlet Letter and Wes Moore’s success in The Other Wes Moore.

Throughout the story the protagonist is left nameless. This provides the reader with another question of identity. Without a name to attach to the character, we are left without an identity.

As a writer, Ann Petry is known to use her own experiences, racial incidents, and aspects of family life in her novels and short stories that adds to their richness and culturally authenticity. Similarly, to the narrator in her short story The New Mirror, Petry came from a family of pharmacist, and lived as a black minority in a small town. Due to Petry’s middle class status, she was more shielded from racial wage inequality then most African Americans but as The New Mirror displays, nothing serves as a shield to the psychological effects of racism.

There comes a point in time in an individual’s life in which their name truly becomes a part of their identity. A name is more than just a title to differentiate people; it is a part of the person. In Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim, names play a major role on the character’s identities. The absence and importance of the names in the story make the story rich with detail and identity through something as simple as the name of a character. Names are a significant factor affecting the story and the characters throughout the novel Lost Names.

In the Lee reading there was a focus on the importance of a name and where it comes from. There was also an in-depth

The use of symbolism by O’Connor brings meaning to the story. O’Connor purposely chooses certain names to symbolize the characters’ personalities in “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”. Two examples can be found for this: “Shiftlet” and “Crater”. “Shiftlet” can be referred to as “shifty”, or shady. The name makes the reader feel uneasy about him to begin with. The name

Through history people have tended to judge the lives of other by what they see on the outside, and completely disregard their actually character. “Stereotyping in the World” today has become a greater and greater problem has history moves on. Some have been known to look past these cases such as Reginald Rose’s book Twelve Angry Men. The play has been shown that one voice can change the thoughts of many by getting past the first layer and breaking it down to their inner person. Twelve Angry Men has showed the theme of “Stereotyping in the World” through the characters’ proper reasoning, communicating, and believing in good faith.

The play Twelve Angry Men demonstrates the significance of analyzing character traits in order to better understand a character’s motivations. A character who is unlike me is juror 8 because he is very courageous, I am far from courageous. He doesn’t care what people think about him. He’s not scared to speak how he feels, and what he thinks. For me I can’t do that I am scared of what people will think. For example he says “It’s not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first” (rose 12). He wasn’t scared to say that while everyone else just sat there. He is saying what he thinks is right. I don’t show courage because I am scared of what people will think about what I have to say,

As Raskolnikov’s shame takes over him, his mental health gradually deteriorates, despite his previous belief that he held enough intellectual and emotional