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Running Head : V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

A Discussion of the Movie

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V for Vendetta is a futuristic story of a Britain ruled by the wealth to win the election , eliminate the opposition and restore in a post-war and -terrorism society . The party amassed its vast wealth by discovering a cure for a virus from a bioterrorist attack . Later on in the story it would be discovered that the party itself was responsible for the spread of the virus as part of its plot to rule the

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In the middle of the conflict are its two main characters . V is a masked revolutionary who plans to destroy the government by killing its officials one by one and capping his acts by blowing up the House of Parliament . Evey is an ordinary young woman who crosses paths with V when the latter rescues her while she is being harassed by state police Later on , she in turn helps V escape from the building of the state-controlled British Television Network (BTN ) after he broadcasts himself urging the people to rise against the government on November 5 The days leading to November 5 then become a period of chaos in Britain as people , inspired by their hero , commits little acts of rebellion on the streets . On the day itself , however , V is shot and fatally wounded in an encounter with Creedy , the Norsefire party leader although he also kills Creedy during the time . Evey places V 's dead body on an underground train filled with explosives set to explode beneath Parliament . The final scene shows the people in jubilation over the overthrow of their tyrant government

The movie derives its historical inspiration in Guy Guido ' Fawkes The mask V wears is patterned after his likeness . Fawkes was a member of revolutionary group of Catholics during the early 17th century who planned to overthrow the Protestant monarchy led by King James I of England . He became famous because of his involvement in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot , a conspiracy whose goal was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of the Parliament which would have killed the King and all officials . The group rented a cellar positioned underneath the Parliament building and loaded it with gunpowder . The plot failed when it was leaked to authorities . Fawkes became the first member of the revolutionaries arrested because he was tasked to guard and detonate the gunpowder . He and some of his companions were executed for the offense . After King James declared the annual commemoration of the foiled plot , Hawkes became a symbol of the occasion and his image and the story lived on in history . In the movie , the final act of destroying Parliament through an underground tunnel was itself based on the Gunpowder Plot . The date of the explosion , November 5 , was also the same both in history and the movie

Meanwhile , the Norsefire government in the film reminds the viewer of fascist governments that have existed...