In the works of V for Vendetta, written by Alan Moore, The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin, and King Henry IV Part One, by William Shakespeare, central characters recurrently—through their thoughts and actions—examine the nature of violent change. And, specifically, in all three works, this exploration is contrastingly founded on the characters responding to the ramifications of the past in an attempt to subsequently regain personal stability through violent means. In the graphic novel V for Vendetta, the character that uses violence as a means of dealing with their pasts and thereby, creating change as a consequence, is Evie. For instance, within the text, Evie aids V in his acts of terrorism or, “the political use of violence”
