Sunday, November 10, 2013

How is the movie V for Vendetta related to the book 1984 ? What shows the movie is related to the book, specific quotes or events ?

Yes, the
graphic novel series V for
Vendetta
by Alan Moore is very much like the
novel 
by .

  • Both works are Juvenalian
    satires
    against totalitarian governments, namely the controlling parties (the
    Norsefire party vs. the
    Inner Party).
  • Both works focus
    on the cruelties perpetrated by the secret
    police.
  • Both
    works focus on the fear spread by a leader's intimidating,
    ubiquitous face:
    (Adam Susan vs. Big Brother)
  • Both works focus on the

    spread of state terrorism against the common public.
  • Both works
    focus on
    Great Britain as a country in the crossfire of terrorism from within
    and outside.

  • Both works focus on a common man () and
    woman (Evey) who become victims of the state's
    cruelties.

  • Both works focus on the invasion of privacy by the state against

    the individual ("Eye"  the agency that controls the country's CCTV system in

    V; the telescreens in 1984.)

  • Both
    works focus on rhymes as links to the past:


In

V,

it's:
"Remember, remember / The fifth of November / The gunpowder
treason
and plot. / I know of no reason / Why the gunpowder treason / Should
ever be
forgot."

In

1984,

it's:
"Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's, You owe me
three
farthings, say the bells of St Martin's."



  • Both works focus on the torture of
    their protagonists by an experienced
    terrorist (V, ).

  • The main difference is that in V for
    Vendetta

    is revenge fantasy.  In it, we have a hero, V, who guides Evey to defeat the

    state.
  • V tortures Evey as an initiation into the underground, and
    it makes
    her stronger.  O'Brien uses the imaginary underground (Goldstein) as
    a lure to torture Winston,
    and it defeats him.

  • 1984 ends with Winston becoming an
    unperson:
    he has no mentor or guide.  In fact, who he thinks is his guide, O'Brien, turns out
    to
    be his torturer.

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