V for Vendetta

The purpose of a government is to protect the individual rights of its citizens. Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the author of “Harrison Begeron”, and James McTeigue, the director of V for Vendetta, portray the abrasive relationship between governments and their citizens. The story and film both share the same conflicts with governments using hostility in order to keep its citizens under strict control. When the government takes away its citizens’ natural born rights, citizens lose their power of having…

We open the story,”V for Vendetta”, to a woman getting ready in here apartment. The setting is a dystopian London town. The woman’s name is Evey. She goes out on the street but gets stopped by fingermen. A masked man named V, swoops in and saves her by killing two fingerman. He then takes Evey back to his Shadow Gallery, where he holds a lot of art and music that were taken by the government. V then goes after Mr. Prothero and captures him by killing all of bodyguards. He takes Prothero to a…

“The people should not be afraid of the government, the government should be afraid of the people.” These are the words said by V in the movie V for Vendetta. But how can a citizen live in an authoritarian state? How can a dictator achieve absolute control of power? By definition, authoritarianism is a government that governs without the consent of those being governed. In authoritarian states, there is only one ruler whether it may be a king, a military leader, dictator or even a president…

even darkness, just nonexistence. And the reason why my biggest fear is death as whenever I think of death, pain is the first word that comes into my mind. Although in the movie V for Vendetta, V overcomes the fear of death. “I see you do not fear death”(V for Vendetta 2005).The word you in this dialogue is being referred to V, where he overcame the fear of death because of his fearless, determined revenge on the government on what they had done to him and the whole society in the…

be afraid of their people” ( V for Vendetta). In this film of vengeance, the plot revolves around the role of government. This similar idea can be seen in the music video to the song “American Idiot” as well. Through words, characters, plot, and visionary, these two sources centralize around defying the role of government. During a revolution, a leader uses their popularity to spread information and unite the people. V, The main character in the movie V for Vendetta, is a mysterious vigilante…

Gus’s parents to watch the movie V for Vendetta in the living room, and not in the basement. Whereas in the movie, they just head right into the basement, no questions asked. In the book, it captures more of their innocence and young age by being told to stay upstairs, making it more relatable to a teen reading this book. Related to that, there is no mention of V for Vendetta at all in the movie. In the book, Gus talks about how Hazel looks just like a V for Vendetta Natalie Portman, and he…

In his essay, “Interrogating the Manipulation of Fear”, Andrew Schopp claims that Chief Inspector Finch (Stephen Rea) is the V for Vendetta’s “moral center”, partially because of the way he “voices [the film’s] most crucial ideas, including the central question of whether we would even want to know if our government caused the deaths of thousands of its own citizens to create the kind of fear that would lead the populace to elect a new administration” (272). For a character to be a film’s moral…

There was a country called Velarus which was controlled and ruled by two homosexual brothers. Steve Warhol was the older brother, and he was short, bald and fat. He controlled the political affairs of the country. Will Warhol was the younger brother, he was tall, skinny and handsome. He controlled the military affairs of the country. There was an internal conflict between both brothers, they hated each other, and their ways of handling the governmental affairs were completely different. The…

Biological Weapons Threat”). In the movie, V for Vendetta, England is set during in a dystopian future where a totalitarian government has been established. The film stars Hugo Weaving, who plays a freedom fighter named V, and Natalie Portman, who plays Evey, a young woman who gets herself intertwined in V’s operation. With Evey’s help, V tries to start a rebellion against the government through various acts of terrorism. Leading the mission to take down V is Eric Finch, played by Stephen Rea.…

graphic novel V for Vendetta, which was released as a movie in 2006. The heroes of the book and movie are Jonas and V, two individuals living under…