11. Moore is really good at finding core emotions of genre tropes: Rorschach is perfect distillation of bullied/abused kid turned avenger
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12. But beyond that we identify with Rorschach because he's the puzzle solver who unravels grand conspiracy behind the book.
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13. Alan Moore is of course something of a conspiracy theorist himself and loves to create mysteries his people only imperfectly solve.
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14. Rorschach is the truth-seeker in the book, and hence we identify with him as we ourselves try to unravel puzzle of the book itself.
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15. Last three RTs all offer reasons why Rorschach engages audiences sympathy and becomes figure we identify with.
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16. But there's also the ending of the book, where Ozymandias is revealed as monster and all the other superheroes comprised with his crime
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17. We don't have to agree with Rorschach's fatal decision to oppose Ozymandias to see that it is one of the few acts of nobility in book.
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18. Rorschach wants the truth of Ozymandias' crime to come out, and Moore himself wants that truth to come out (for good political reasons)
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19. The good political reason is that Moore (at his best) is a democratic anarchist who doesn't want elite superheroes to have secrets
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20. So Rorschach at the end becomes the figure who stands not just for absolute morality but also for the rights of ordinary humans.
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21. RT @bruce_arthur and dies for it
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22. Yes. Rorschach lives for the truth and dies for it. He's a martyr, which aligns him with the humans killed by Ozymandias' mad scheme.
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