The Role Of Evey Hammond In Alan Moore's V For Vendetta

Evey Hammond is on a life journey to fill the role of V and further spread his idea of freedom from the government to the rest of the population; however, Alan Moore throughout his novel V for Vendetta has portrayed Evey as someone who needs a father figure in her life to help guide her and show her how to function in the society lead by Norsefire. Evey at a young age loses her father because of his radical left views and that he is against the Norsefire government. When we as readers are introduced to her, it is shown through David Lloyd’s illustrations that Evey is not happy and later throughout the story we also get the sense that she is trying to fill the role left by her father. Evey has relationships with V, Gordon, and even a relationship …show more content…
V and Evey are first introduced in the novel when V savers her (11/10). Alan Moore does this to have the reader from the beginning look at Evey as someone that needs protection from a male and Evey tells V “you… you rescued me” (13/7) further showing that she need V and without V she would have been in trouble. Paradoxically, Evey learns to overcome her desire for a father by turning to another father figure in V. V acts like a father and comforts Evey after her story about her real father being taken away (29). Evey does not realize her but as she is try to get over her father she has begun turning V into a father figure; some that can comfort her in a time of need. Evey even starts to believe V is her really father. “I’m not your Father Evey” (99/7) this quote shows that V himself needs to explain that he is not her father even if she really wished he …show more content…
At the end of the Novel, Evey is show as V while Rosemary is the one to kill Adam Susan which now shows women as powerful and independent. This provokes a response in the reader. Some readers might be in a state of mind like Norsefire and not understand such a change in the women and be skeptical of Evey and her now independent personality, while other readers might be in a state of mind like the women in the novel and V and believe the sudden change due to the circumstances, and believe that Evey can be V and spread the idea of V. Alan Moore portrays Evey as someone needing a father figure in her life, this in turn creates a problematic reading because it becomes hard to imagine Evey in such a roles as V. This style of portrayal of Evey leaves the reader with more questions even after finishing the novel. The reader is left wondering about how they not only see Evey but how they truly view the role of women in one’s own society. Moore and Lloyd show Evey as someone who needs a father figure but later show her as some who is now independent, and let the reader decide if they believe in the sudden change of Evey or still see Evey as someone who will eventually seek a male figure to be in her