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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 28: Applying Critical Reading: “Watchmen”

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The Psychotic Character of Adrian Vite and Rorschach

There's an element of sociopathy in Adrian as well, he really does see himself very superior to everyone else. He starts describing the fact that he's been orphaned. More is contrasting Adrian Vite with Rorschach because we are seeing broken homes in both of them. One character's mother made her. How many things do we do? That's my favorite motivation. Because family expects us. Mom made me. And then there's Dr. Manhattan who just does it because it's what he's been doing.That's an example of a parallelism. Yeah. In Dr. Manhattan's character arc, it's about motivation. He doesn't really get his motivation until the

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