V For Vendetta Feminist Analysis

Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s graphic dysfunctional novel V For Vendetta involves aggressive governments that monitor their citizen’s behavior. The government controls the media and goes after anyone that resist their power. This novel demonstrates the way the government expresses and hardens its power by expressing a masculine hierarchy that mistreats the female body. All the women in this graphic novel are indulged in sexual activities to a ridiculous level and are all made into long-lasting victims. There are three specific young feminine women in V for Vendetta: Evey, Rosemary, and Helen. Both Helen and Rosemary are dependent on the masculine figures in their life. Their masculine figure scraps out an existence for themselves purely through
Unfortunately, V was neither of these, so she starts getting skeptical on his intentions and she begins to question his loyalty. She becomes concerned when she is at V’s “Shadow Gallery” and see that he has stolen items sitting on his dresser. Evey’s lifestyle is based on fear. After the government captured her father, Evey offers herself to men for a companion and protection. She thinks she is not a strong person because she could not stand up for what she believed in. Constructing the Reader’s Perspective in V for Vendetta author Ben Little stated, “Evey takes the sympathetic role most often” (Little). She is one of the major character that went a few tragedies in her lifetime. When the government took her father away, Evey did not have a male figure in her life, so she looked up to prostituting at men for physical protection. Evey had no control over what happened to her family, so she takes refuge from it by going to live with Gordon. Her relationship with Gordon was a little strange, because at first, Gordon was a father figure to her, but later on, he turned out to be her