Tuesday, March 8, 2011

V for Vendetta


            The novel V for Vendetta represents changes to society through revolution and resistance by showing how V is able to manipulate everyone he is after and creating the idea that the government showed by afraid of its people. The way V begins the revolution in the novel is by murdering everyone who is from his past out of revenge. In doing so he is able to prove to the government that it should never believe that it has all the power, but instead realize that the people are what give it power and can take it away just as easily. V ways of resistance are very convincing to those who are after him in the novel because he is able to take a part of who they are and use that against them. Although his methods may be a little extreme sometimes, these methods tend to reveal a truth that the person was hiding and he then uses that to aid in his revenge.
            One passage that made the story more engaging was from pages 32 to 34 where V is using Lewis Prothero’s past to destroy the thing he enjoys the most. Once V is able to bring out the truth in Prothero and letting Prothero figure out who he was then he destroys the dolls that Prothero enjoys collecting. The images helped to visualize where V was kept and how things were at the Larkhill Resettlement Camp, making it easier for me to understand what V was trying to do to Prothero. The other passage I thought helped make the story more engaging was on pages 80 to 83 where the diary of Dr. Delia was being read in order to understand where V came from and who he is. It describes V’s development inside the camp and describes the role of everyone who had been involved in his past. The images during this section of the story were very helpful in showing what went on in the camp and I was able to understand more of what V was actually trying to do inside of the camp, while he was being experimented on.

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