V For Vendetta Society Analysis

A gray, echoing room surrounds it. It is shackled, restrained, confined. Ankles and wrists bruised and bleeding from the chains that loop around it, like a tornado ripping anything it is able to grasp. Screaming thoughts constantly being silenced and unsaid words repeatedly being swallowed down. However, it does not screech for freedom; freedom does not slither off its tongue, ever. And most importantly, it does not mind the bruises and the bleeding because it is dull, lifeless, and numb. Gray eyes are wide, open, and witnessing everything, but the unclaimed eyes are not able to comprehend what it’s viewing. It claims that its name is Citizen and that it lives in a city called Society. More or less, this is how the authors of V for Vendetta and Fahrenheit 451 had envisioned the future: the citizens being the

It has become common today to dismiss the overall theme of movies and books, such as V for Vendetta and Fahrenheit 451. Americans today tend to believe that they do not live in a dictated society. Conversely, not many recognize the bits and pieces of a controlled society. For instance, Americans are surveillanced more than one would suspect. In a recent article called ‘Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance’, Edward Snowden states, “MOSCOW — TWO years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States.” In making this comment, Snowden argues that American citizens are not aware of the amount of surveillance that is brought upon themselves. How many Americans believe that they are being surveillanced while talking on the phone? Admittedly, not many question it. Americans have succumbed to the idea that this democratic government implies freedom, even though private phone conversations are being tapped into. An example worth looking at