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originally conjured for the upper classes of England in effort to improve genetics and induce more favorable, hierarchal offspring for the future generations of the country (Introduction to Eugenics). Coincidentally, Sir Francis Galton was the cousin of Charles Darwin, who is credited with the theory of evolution (Introduction to Eugenics). While eugenics never took hold in England, the controversial idea of selectively breeding individuals to make “desirable” offspring found interest…

While older than The Dark Knight, the movie V for Vendetta takes a step out of stereotypical villain and moves toward the Anti-Hero archetype. Enter a world beset by chaos which was overcome by the restrictive and controlling government installed by a Chancellor Sutler. At start of the movie the…

identify that there is a problem. Government have been a very delicate system people of generations have dealt with. It seems like in history it has always been the government that start the wars, or at least it comes back to the government. In V for Vendetta, V who is the main character of this film, hi-jacks a television station that has an emergency channel and gives his revolutionary speech. Within this speech he gives some reasons on why his government may be corrupted. He helps the people…

As depicted by the countless sold copies of this sort, tragedies appeal to the pathos of human pity. Having been distinguished from their beginning in ancient Greece, when authors such as Sophocles and Homer wrote rhetorics that are still being taught today. In fact, famous, talented Elizabethan playwright, William Shakespeare is best known for his tragedies including the acclaimed Romeo and Juliet. Therefore, it is no surprise that he exquisitely produced the play “Othello”, illustrating the…

Deception Can Ruin You (An Analysis on Macbeth) “Actions speak louder than words and in the tragedy Macbeth, the actions of the central characters are screaming” (Drake). “Macbeth” is a tragic play produced by the well-known playwright William Shakespeare. This play began to spark multiple controversies over Shakespeare’s work. In 1606, this play was officially showed, and Shakespeare made some brave decisions regarding the scenes involved in the play. Although this is a well-known play, only…

When one is confronted with a reality they cannot accept the natural reaction is to run away from it until there is nowhere to run .The dystopian works of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and V for Vendetta by James McTeigue both use violence, brute force, psychological and physical torture to reveal that individuals will run away from reality until they are forced to confront it and this in turn causes them to grow as an individual. In the novel The Road the boy is confronted with the reality that…

isn’t officially considered to have started until 1957, the race actually began at the end of World War two. After the Germans surrendered, the USSR and America rushed to capture Germany’s top rocket scientists to attempt to catch up with the German’s V-2’s. Both the U.S and the USSR captured German rocket scientists, but…

Waiting for the Barbarians follows the Magistrate of a colonial town and the events that occur around him when people hear that the barbarians are about to attack. The protagonist is the Magistrate and the antagonist is Colonel Joll. The colonial town is referred to as the Empire. Outside its borders reside the barbarians or nomads. Soldiers in town take them hostage, cruelly torture them for information and murder them for no reason. They do not even see them as humans. When rumor spreads that…

books called V for Vendetta and a movie followed in 2006. (Moore) The movie takes place in London, England in the year of 2038. (V for Vendetta Movie Summary) In V for Vendetta, London is under the dictatorship of Chancellor Sutler, and the character V realizes that there is something wrong with the country and it needs to be changed. With V and Evey…

Similarities between four characters and two families are prevalent throughout William Shakespeare’s King Henry and King Lear. The similarities between the characters and families shows how both plays can be compared in terms of character function, theme, and plot device. The comparisons demonstrate King Henry and King Lear’s demanding attributes, King Lear’s knight and Hotspur’s ability to recognize that their friends are not being treated respectfully, and the beginnings of feuds between the…