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A Flash of white, the monster "explodes"

Recap of Events

Veidt reveals the monster was sent 35 minutes ago

Veidt explains his masterplan to murder half of New York in order to save the world

Veidt destroys the vivarium

The conflict between Joey and Knot-top Lady escalates

Rorschach and Nite Owl attempt to subdue Veidt and fail

The three assistants are poisoned in the vivarium

Veidt recounts his past, and his journey following Alexander the Great's footsteps

Rorschach and Nite Owl continue their approach to Veidt's base

Veidt sends the monster to New York, 35 minutes to midnight

Veidt makes an observation about predicting the future

Watchmen: Chapter XI

"LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY,

AND DESPAIR!"

Ozymandias

Ozymandias

  • Greek name of Rameses II
  • Title of the poem
  • Costumed hero name of Adrian Veidt

"Look on my works, ye mighty..."

  • A reference to Veidt's works
  • Veidt's enterprise
  • Veidt's vivarium
  • Veidt's plot to save the world

Connections

The Common Thread

A legacy under the threat of oblivion by war

" ... Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away."

"Ruins become sand, sand blows away... All our richness and color and beauty would be lost... as if it had never been."

- Veidt, p. 22

The Significant Relationship

The Egyptian Ruins of the poem echoes Veidt's dread of humanity's eternal oblivion

"And on the pedestal these words appear:

'My Name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains."

"Even our past would be cancelled. Our struggle from the primal ooze, every childbirth, every personal sacrifice rendered meaningless, leading only to dust, tossed on the void-winds. Save for Richard Nixon, whose name adorns a plaque upon the moon, no human vestige would remain." - Veidt, p. 22

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveler from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal these words appear:

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

  • The narrator meets a traveller in the desert
  • They come across Egyptian ruins
  • The traveller reads the boastful engravings on the pedestal
  • The traveller comments on the endless stretch of sand behind the pedestal
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