When class next meets I want everyone to have done the reading -- this includes It's a Bird and Watchmen. Watchmen was voted by Time magazine in 2005 as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. Once you've read it, and can't wait until class to read more about this incredible work, or if you need help understanding some of its more obscure historical references, I'd suggest the following:
AnnotationsChapter V-- A very smart analysis of my favorite chapter -- Fearful Symmetry.
Here's the related browser to show just how Moore uses the symmetry them throughout this chapter/issue. Spend some time with this link, it's very impressive.
Another Watchmen site
here where you can determine which character you have the most in common with. I tested closest to Nite Owl I. Go figure.
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Silk Spectre... although I think this gage is not accurate because i wanted to see if "sexy" instead of "romantic" did anything and then i became nite owl
I got Rorschach. And not just because I smell bad.
Now that I've read Watchmen, you can imagine my horror of being labeled as materialistic maternal pin-up girl Silk Spectre as my quiz personality. Rather than busy myself identifying the flaws of internet personality tests, all I can say is that I empathize with some part of each character, which I think is ultimately the point. Every character seems to me to represent some more base instinct, juggling the id, ego, superego qualities of every person, although I'm sure some people lean toward a particular direction. Initially, I identified most with Rorschach, as a thoroughly cathartic character that fulfilled every genre crossroads moment I could hope for. But then there's the part of me that clicks on "give peace a chance," the one that is baffled by anyone who wouldn't choose this as their answer. Sure, I've got my war crazy tendencies (I did go see 300 twice), but then I've got my hobbit tendencies as well, and of course my whiny girl tendencies like the Silk Spectre mother-daughter team, even though they annoyed the hell out of me. And then I have my Dr. Manhattan/big picture aspirations, and dare I say, the intellectually elitist Veidt persona that surfaces every time I read the newspaper, watch TV, or interact with people. Maybe they should include Malcolm in the personality results- since he, as the academic bred, well-off, pacifist wannabe do-gooder with selfish interests and an itching hint of what is really at stake, is more like any of us than the others- although I doubt we'd admit it. Anyway, I'm not going to change my icon just yet.
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