Tuesday, 14 June 2011

V for Vendetta vs. 1984


 V for Vendetta vs. 1984

 " Fear became the ultimate tool of this government".  - V 

 When reading the graphic novel V for Vendetta and the novel 1984 you start to see how similar the plots are. Alan Moore who wrote V for Vendetta based his graphic novel on George Orwell's 1984. The world in which V (the main character) lives in has the government controlling everything for the media to what people could eat. V is a strong character he is they type of person the wouldn't exist in the book 1984. He is an extreme rebel, he tries to destroy the government by making all the people living in London to go to a special rally on the 4th of November where he will make parliament explode. Nothing like this could have happened in the novel 1984, V would have been vaporized even if he breathed the wrong way. 
The secret police are quite different in 1984 and in V for Vendetta. In 1984, the secert police are extreamly loyal to the inner party and dont expresstheir behaviors like in sexual desires unlike the secret police in V for Vendetta on page 11, they try to rape Evey. (Evey become V's friend later on in the novel) The book 1984 deals with a man, Winston Smith, realizing that his government is not what it seems. There is something seriously wrong, they control your house with televisions that never turn off, your thoughts, and on signs saying " Big Brother is Watching You." 
Big Brother doesn't allow people to love but the government, so basically getting married to someone you love is out of the question. You're dead.  Even though the V for Vendetta was based on George Orwell's novel, i liked V better. In 1984 I thought that Winston was going to get somewhere, make a diffrence. Instead he is simply brainwashed in to loving Big Brother/ government. 


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