Bowsher v. Synar

V for Vendetta is a story about a man’s quest to not only avenge the wrong doings of his totalitarian government but also to liberate his society from its state of enforced conformity. The movie depicts a fascist government that rules under the guise of God and has come into being after a period of war, famine and disease hit the country. The fear that follows this period causes the people to give in to this government which in return provides them with a false sense of security and complacency…

V as a covered rebel tries to execute those in Norsefire as a result of their dictatorship. V is no doubt understood with explosives, philosophical keenness and PC hacking. V represents the force between the totalitarian government and the minority bunch.In the movie, “V for Vendetta,” I assume the character of V. throughout the movie, I hide behind a mask that belonged to Guy Fawkes, the man who tried to blow the parliament building of England on November 5th, 1605. I had gone through a…

In his essay, “Interrogating the Manipulation of Fear”, Andrew Schopp claims that Chief Inspector Finch (Stephen Rea) is the V for Vendetta’s “moral center”, partially because of the way he “voices [the film’s] most crucial ideas, including the central question of whether we would even want to know if our government caused the deaths of thousands of its own citizens to create the kind of fear that would lead the populace to elect a new administration” (272). For a character to be a film’s moral…

The themes of both justice and injustice permeate the entirety of both Henry V and Heroes. From the opening chapter of Heroes with its horrific description of the war injuries sustained by Francis Cassavant, right through to the final chapter where he leaves to live a new life, justice plays a critical part in every action. Likewise, each scene in Henry V is constructed to illustrate how the factor of justice and what is morally right, impacts the decisions made. Intentionally, the writers…

In V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, V takes matters into his own hands to rid Britain of the fascist government that has plagued it. He uses torture, murder, and mind manipulation to try and save the country. He was able to get everything to fall into place and get rid of their government Norsefire and free the citizens, but does that undoubtedly make him the hero? People have debated that he was either hero or villain. V is neither hero nor villain, but a vigilante due to of the…

by now an old man, who is portrayed by well-known actor John Hurt. As we hear the Chorus, also voiced by John Hurt, speak the epilogue in the same moment, it can be easily supposed that the boy is now reflecting as an old man upon the story of Henry V since he has been a witness to the events of that…

Miller’s Mccarthyist allegorical play The Crucible (1953) utilises theatrical techniques to effectively depicts the influence of power. James Mcteigue’s V for Vendetta (V) reiterates the nature of political freedom and individuality, the exclusion of truth and transparency and the importance of unified resistance. Through both The Crucible and V for Vendetta both convey the power of individuals in shaping values and attitudes and the malleability of truth by powerful political forces. The play…

In the film ‘V for Vendetta’ directed by James McTeigue, protagonists V and Evey try to create a revolution against their corrupt government; we are presented the idea that you can’t be an individual when oppressed. This is displayed in the prison scene, where we see Evey being captured and tortured. She finds the letter of the life of a previous inmate, Valerie, and are shown her life and how she was captured for being homosexual. McTeigue used the aspects of high angle shots, lighting,…

how ideals and ideologies shapes who we are and our actions it’s necessary to analyze the comic V for vendetta. In other words, in order to understand how identity can be constructed through ideals and…

apart. However, in the film V for Vendetta and Ray Bradbury 's novel, Fahrenheit 451, a section of this backbone has been taken over by a disease which is trying to take control of the functions which make up a full body. This backbone analogy can be compared to the governments in both the book and the film. The backbone acts as technology, and the disease acts as the government using this technology, or at least trying to, in order to establish and maintain control. In both, V for Vendetta and…