ENGL108A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fatalism, Determinism, Doomsday Clock
2 Sep 2017
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Philosophy of (cid:862)(cid:272)ausality(cid:863) complex relationships that can be controlled: abandons it for chaos (gets high, perspective. Black and white: good and evil (cid:862)nothi(cid:374)g is hopeless (cid:374)ot whe(cid:374) the(cid:396)e"s life(cid:863) Is the death of rorschach the death of hope: both (hope, and na ve belief) Rorschach the pessimist (cid:862)us(cid:863): sees himself as a part of the human disease also (unlike manhattan and veidt who place themselves above the human race) Contagious philosophy: mal (the psychiatrist) (loses everything when he understands who rorschach is) Fatalism/determinism: dete(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)is(cid:373): the(cid:396)e"s a pla(cid:374, fatalism: the(cid:396)e"s a pla(cid:374) so i (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge a(cid:374)ythi(cid:374)g leads him to mars (cid:862)superman is full if c(cid:396)ap(cid:863) Chapter 5 is a mirror: easter egg. Pirate story: relevant to each character. (cid:862)who watches the wat(cid:272)h(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:863) (never appears finished or all together; society wants to ask this (cid:395)uestio(cid:374), (cid:271)ut (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t/is u(cid:374)a(cid:271)le to(cid:895) Bomb goes off at 11:22 pm (instead of the typical midnight)
