Monster Culture Analysis

When we were children we were told so many times not to do certain ‘bad’ actions. We were little and we thought that just because the elder people said this to us, then it must be right. However, this telling of what to do with passing of time evolved into telling of what to be and the ones who did so weren’t our parents, but instead an abstract concept called ‘society’. This ‘society’ doesn’t allow changes in it, and it’s afraid of change. This is clearly showed in the movie V for Vendetta, especially with Valery. She and the people who had the courage to go beyond the norms imposed by society were portrayed as ‘monsters’ and depicted as the reasons why society couldn’t move on. As J.J.Cohen mentions in his essay “Monster Culture”, …show more content…
Just because of her sexual preference, she was marked, as Deborah Tannen would call it. The fact that she was judged just because she was different and had the courage to follow her heart made society put a mark on her, which is supposed to make us stay away from it, this ‘evil monster’. She was considered less of a person and a monster. In a society in which being different is a crime bigger than everything else and where happiness is violently cut out, a question arises spontaneously: who is the real …show more content…
Her shunning from her family and friends shows the effect society has over everyone. Despite being different, in Valery we see a normal person. We see her pursuing her career, finding the love of her life and spending three years of happiness. All these actions are normal stages in everyone’s life. This is a detail which shows us the similarity between the socially accepted people and the monsters of the society. This similarity makes us understand that except that different belief, sexuality and racial difference they are just like the others. But when the audience views what society did to her while she did not do anything bad to society makes us ask why is she and people who are different considered as