“Governments should be afraid of their people.”
V For Vendetta Plot Synopsis
V for Vendetta is an empowering and well-written dystopian tale, reinforcing that there are strength in numbers and that the strength of many will usurp the minority when backed into a corner. Specifically, our tale takes place in a near-future dystopian Britain where the government has outlawed all forms of freedom. A masked vigilante known as V emerges to fight for freedom and justice, using his wit and intelligence to take down the government. ..
A virus has ravaged the country, catapulting a tyrannical government into the throngs of power. Ruling through fearmongering and misinformation, a masked vigilante named V sets out to tip the scales back in favour of everyday people – or women as the case may be. ..
Evey, an employee of the TV channel broadcasting the propaganda to the masses, is helping to carry this message.
How does the revolution begin?
Adam Sutler is a madman who has managed to get the nation to vote for him in a landslide. He’s a dictator, with large monitors that project his face menacingly onto the puppets in the government. The Norsefire Party is a madman’s party, and they’re leading the country into an abyss.
Evey manages to escape and goes to the police station, where she tells her story. The next day, Deitrich’s show is cancelled after he refuses to apologise for Evey’s ordeal. This sparks a wave of protests across the city, with people coming out in droves to demand change. ..
A masked vigilante saves a woman’s life at the Old Bailey, showing her the explosion he had planned in order to destroy the building. ..
Next, V hijacks the television tower itself, courtesy of a suicide vest, and broadcasts a message out to every TV in Britain, urging the public to gather outside the House of Parliament one year from today (November 5th) to protest against the government.
How did Adam Sutler get into power?
Detective Finch is investigating a series of murders in England that seem to be connected. He begins to piece together what’s really going on by looking into the various suspects’ backgrounds. ..
Finch learns that Sutler organized a whole government conspiracy where the aforementioned virus was manufactured from within, created and released in three key locations across the UK; a tube station, a school and a water treatment plant. Sutler’s conspiracies have led to Finch’s capture and imprisonment.
With the death toll rising, Sutler blamed this on a terrorist organization and used this fear to rise in power.
What is Larkhill Resettlement Camp? And how does V escape?
Evey stays with V overnight, and V goes out to kill several high-ranking officials who have connections to Larkhill Resettlement Camp. This is a concentration camp where horrific experiments took place. As we find out later on in the movie, this ties in with V’s origin, where he was one of many test subjects experimented on and tortured at this awful institution. ..
These medical experiments resulted in the majority of test subjects being killed. At the forefront of this happens to be Dr. Delia Surridge, who was involved in producing an artificially-designed hormone injection. “The man in room five” (shown with a V for the roman numeral during the flashback) survives.
In the graphic novel V, the protagonist, Larkhill, uses fertilizer and solvent to make mustard gas and napalm to plot his escape. Given that we know him to be handy with homemade poisons and explosives (something we learn through the different murders to those involved with Larkhill), it makes sense that he would use this tool to escape.
V detonates the bomb, escapes his cell and screams to the heavens as he heads out into the night. As a result, Larkhill is closed down and most of the evidence covered up. This leads to a miscarriage of justice as Larkhill’s true killer goes free. ..
Who is Valerie Page?
Evey is captured by high-ranking officials the same night that Deitrich is taken away and presumably killed. She’s brought to a solitary cell and tortured for information on V. Evey refuses to give him up and in doing so, receives several letters from a woman named Valerie Page; her autobiography scribbled down on rolls of toilet paper. Over the various nights, Evey reads the notes by the thin sliver of light out her window. ..
The article tells the story of a gay woman who was killed by a serial killer, and how her love of botany and flowers helps him to remember her.
Evey wasn’t captured by the government after all. It was actually V and he did this to encourage her to break free and confront her fears. He wanted her to push past this and no longer be afraid of death. Only then can one truly be free. ..
Does Evey pull the lever?
As the film reaches its climax, V distributes thousands of Guy Fawkes masks to the general public. After a Fingerman shoots a young girl wearing a mask, the people begin to rebel. The public march in the streets wearing those masks, making it to the houses of parliament. The soldiers are worried and are eventually ordered to stand down by the general, given there are far too many people. It would be a bloodbath if they opened fire. ..
The toppling of dominoes scene just prior to this reinforces the idea that the actions of one individual can have a ripple effect on thousands, creating a wave of change. ..
Evey, a young girl, is faced with a difficult decision: to detonate the houses of parliament and end the war, or not. The carriage is all rigged and ready to go, and it’s up to her to make that decision. She does so, but suffers a great loss in the process. ..
Does V die?
Evey is at the underground tube station when V, the leader of the Horsefire Party, meets Creedy, the party’s leader. Given how Creedy has been treated with disdain by Sutler, it comes as no surprise to find V use this to his advantage. ..
V promises his own surrender in exchange for killing Sutler. Creedy shoots the leader in the head, and then uses his bulletproof vest to thwart numerous shots from Creedy’s men and best them all. ..
After choking out Creedy, it is revealed that the vest wasn’t enough to stop some of those bullets and the vest is badly wounded. staggering back to Evey, he collapses on the floor and dies. fittingly, Evey has his body onboard the very train that blows up parliament, surrounding him in red roses.
How does V for Vendetta end?
With V for Vendetta, the author has created a powerful and stirring story that will leave readers on the edge of their seats. The ending is sure to leave a lasting impression on readers, and the future of Britain is looking bright.
As the houses of parliament are blown up, everyone removes their masks and marvel at the spectacular firework display before them. This removal of masks is symbolic for each of the public breaking free from the shackles of their own masks they’ve been holding onto all film long. Of course, this references back to V’s own dialogue earlier on the movie, where he tells Evey that “You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
Are the “dead” characters actually in the crowd?
The question is: who killed Valerie?
The Deitrich case is a reminder that freedom of speech and assembly are not given lightly in this totalitarian society. The young girl who sparked the revolution may have been killed, but her memory lives on.
These three characters remove their masks to show that V is everyone and he’s “all of us.” This is a symbol because it shows that V is the only one who can bring about a new future for Britain. All of these people have helped bring about a brand new future for Britain in their death, with them all serving as iconic martyrs in their own way to break free from this fear-stricken nightmare they were all a part of.
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