Examples Of Totalitarianism In V For Vendetta

The fascist Norsefire government in V for Vendetta maintained complete control over its denizens by preventing the people from speaking out or expressing any form of opinion. This dystopian society was ruled by a government who strived to uphold complete authoritarian control through its usage of various oppressive tools such as monitoring the conversations and actions of its denizens. A terrorist figure named V appeared to rise as a symbol of hope to eradicate this oppression by physically destroying the government and its corrupt members, but his actions were only fueled by vengeance against the government for the cruel experimental treatment they had conducted on him at the Larkhill resettlement camp. While it may seem that V is a hero because a byproduct of his anarchy led to the freedom for the people of England, he was actually a villain because the true and only motive of his radical actions was to seek revenge against those who had wronged him. It is clear that V’s actions were driven out of revenge and not for the freedom of the people by his objective to destroy anyone and anything …show more content…
By using terror to fight the government organization that thrived off using terror, V exemplified everything that he was fighting against in his actions and became as evil as the government. It may seem like V acted out of the goodness of his heart to help the people of England because the end result of V’s plan eliminated this oppression. However, V created a false persona with the person behind the mask being a pure villain. All around the world, people are wearing Guy Fawks and V masks when they are revolting against their governments and they are only doing this to prevent their identity behind a terroristic model. Instead of inspiring people to do good, these actions hidden behind a mask only