Watchman Analytical Essay: The Comedian Is Dead

Watchman analytical essay

“The Comedian is dead.” This short quote by Rorschach is what sparked the whole journey and mystery that occurs in Watchman. I believe that the death of the comedian is a vital part in the plot of Watchman because it provides a cover up for Adrian Veidt's plan, It helped Veidt get rid of his biggest threat to his plan, and, it helped him become the lone person involved in saving the world. With the understandings from of Scott McCloud's chapter six Show and Tell, from his book Understanding Comics, I was able to Draw connections between the text and the comics to help prove the argument.

The Death of the comedian was essentially used as a puzzle piece in Adrian Veidt's master plan. This conveys that without the cover

This shows that Veidt was not going to let anything or anyone get in his way of “saving” the world. While Veidt And Blake were both fighting crime thirty years prior they were constantly at each other's throats, Blake and Veidt can be seen arguing about the possibility the world's problems being solved with Blake saying “it takes a moron to think they’re small enough for clowns like you to handle.”(Pg 52) This shows how Blake and Veidt have not liked each other from the start and Veidt knew that if he was ever going to attempt a plan like saving the world that Edward Blake would just oppose him. One of the reasons that Adrian Veidt saw Edward Blake as a threat was because he found out about Veidt’s plan. While revealing everything to Rorschach and Dan he said “ Blake understood too. he knew my plan would succeed, though its scale terrified him.”(Pg 373) “ imagine… The perfect fighting man discovering a plot to put war to an end”. (Pg 372) Blake was a man of war, having fought in Vietnam and always looking for a fight to pick, that personality was drastically different compared to Veidt’s more peaceful approach to problems. Both Veidt and Blake, although different personalities want to be the best at everything, and Veidt Acknowledged this problem which is why he knew if he wanted to succeed in we

This is important because it shows how everything that Adrian Veidt did was all part of a greater plan, he wanted to unite the world and that would not have happened if Blake’s death had not occurred. Veidt modeled his whole plan after what Alexander had done before him “ruling without barbarism he instituted the ancient world's greatest seat of learning. True people died but, who can judge” (Pg 356) This shows how he got the idea to unite the world, and how he was not afraid to kill people in order to complete his task, which is foreshadowing for what happens in new york after he launches his plan. While Veidt was in his younger years he talks about visiting the places of Alexander’s conquest, which only inspired him to work toward that in his later years. Adrian Veidt began to plot his plan saying “ thus began my path to conquest… Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them.” (Pg 359) this shows how he was not going to let anything come between him and succeeding his goal, I believe that he saw Edward Blake as an “evil” that got in his way of besetting his plan which is why he had to be killed. Veidt was so obsessed with succeeding that he was willing to kill to achieve what he