Rorschach’s journal, containing an account of events leading up to the mass slaughter, is left in the hands of a young, unkempt newspaper assistant.
However, no verdict is passed on the world’s fate.
Throughout its story, Watchmen presents several takes on the morality of murder, the ultimate judgment of death, and its implications in the grand scheme of the world. However, when they discover his plot, it has already been carried out and he is able to convince all but one of them, Rorschach, not to reveal the truth to the world. Set in an alternate version of the 1980s, Watchmen follows several heroes as they uncover their comrade Ozymandias’s plan to unite the world by sacrificing millions of innocent lives and blaming it on a fake alien invasion. At the center of its plot sits the classic heroic notion of the greater good, the sacrifice of the few for the many. In 1986, Alan Moore’s revolutionary graphic novel, Watchmen, redefined the superhero genre and pushed the bounds of what is considered great literature.
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