Social justice
Trevor Todd
V for Vendetta Question Essay
In the technical sense, V is a terrorist. Is terrorism a legitimate way to overthrow an oppressive government? Is it the only way? Were the fatalities likely caused by V's explosions worth the ultimate result?
Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Augusto Pinochet, Francisco Franco, and Benito Mussolini, where all dictators that over controlled and completely abused over the people of the countries in which they ruled, by oppressing slaughtering and torturing the ones that where against their beliefs. All of them actually ended the same, killed by the people from their country that where bored off being constantly mistreated, oppressed and who their human right where violated. I think the same happens in the book v for vendetta if v wouldn’t have done what he did the only thing that would change would be the time of the revolution people while always rebel to evil oppression.
The term terrorism refers to the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes. In that case V is the most accurate terrorist the world has ever seen, because his method consisted on making fear grow in the government and hope in the peoples heart. The terrorist is the one that opposes to the government because it doesn’t believe that what this government is doing is right V wanted to change things to better and he knew very well this government he knew the would not accept any type of opposition whether it was social political cultural o what ever kind was presented. He was witness to all of the horrible things that where done to those who didn’t make the cut of the ideal society that the government was trying to create. All the gays, the blacks, the ones with a different way of living, where killed just for being different from the others. This people control what people see, what people hear, and how people feel.
V knew that the only way to tear apart a government