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Panels 1-4: The smashing of Dr. Manhattan’s fortress by
the Nostalgia perfume bottle is a larger, more direct symbol of the shattering
of the walls that Laurie erected to keep secret from herself the fact that the
Comedian, Eddie Blake, the man who raped her mother, is her father. Like the deception
she formed to explain away her heritage, this edifice shatters, symbolizing Laurie’s
shattered reality.
The
ease with which this clockwork tower shatters also symbolizes the fragility of Dr.
Manhattan’s own self-deceptions (that all of time is set in stone and he has no
ability to step out of the blueprint laid before him) as he finally makes a
choice, on the following page, and changes his mind – something he claimed to
be impossible.
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