V For Vendetta, a film directed by James McTeigue based on the graphic novel series by David Moore and David Lloyd share many similarities with Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Both of the works have common themes of vigilantism, rhetoric and power struggles, as well as betrayal, yet rhetoric and power is the theme of the most substance. There are many parallels between the characters of both medias. In both works, there is a sense of an all powerful ruler coming into power on terms not traditionally used in their government as well as the all powerful character of each ruler. V for Vendetta was the story of a vigilante fighting the government under the simple alias of ‘V’ and Evey, the female protagonist and sidekick of V. They embark
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In Julius Caesar, the power rhetoric is an overarching theme but shows the beginning of a possible all powerful dictator like Adam Sutler of V for Vendetta. “Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” These words were spoken by the character V when he took control of the BTN the night before he met his goal of destroying the criminal court building building along with the ideas the government upheld. This shows the manner in which country’s civilians gave up their strength and pride due to the fear of being sent to a concentration camp or killed. The government used the fear of death or judgement as a method of forming a healthy fear and an immediate following. In Cassius’ process of persuading Brutus to become a conspirator, he asked Brutus, “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs and peep about / To find ourselves dishonorable graves.” Cassius spoke of the manner of which the citizens handled themselves around Caesar, how they behaved fearful of his power, when in reality, he is just as weak as they. Just before uttering those words, Cassius was constantly calling Caesar a coward. Cassius uses these words as an advantage point to make Brutus realize that he could in fact take Caesar down to save their nation even though he did not have the same
In Julius Caesar, the power rhetoric is an overarching theme but shows the beginning of a possible all powerful dictator like Adam Sutler of V for Vendetta. “Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” These words were spoken by the character V when he took control of the BTN the night before he met his goal of destroying the criminal court building building along with the ideas the government upheld. This shows the manner in which country’s civilians gave up their strength and pride due to the fear of being sent to a concentration camp or killed. The government used the fear of death or judgement as a method of forming a healthy fear and an immediate following. In Cassius’ process of persuading Brutus to become a conspirator, he asked Brutus, “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs and peep about / To find ourselves dishonorable graves.” Cassius spoke of the manner of which the citizens handled themselves around Caesar, how they behaved fearful of his power, when in reality, he is just as weak as they. Just before uttering those words, Cassius was constantly calling Caesar a coward. Cassius uses these words as an advantage point to make Brutus realize that he could in fact take Caesar down to save their nation even though he did not have the same