![]() It is both a clarion call for individuality, humanity, and revolution, and, disturbingly, a smokescreen for the dark deeds V deems necessary to achieve his aims. The part that music plays in this graphic novel is as ambiguous as V’s personal ethics. The collection of cultural artefacts in his “shadow gallery”, his use of quotations from high and low culture, and his adoption of music and drama to his cause underscore his humanitarian impulses, while his explosive methods and hubristic self-aggrandisement complicate his morality. In a society that promotes homogeneity and discourages free thinking, the revolutionary underpinnings of V’s agenda are signalled through his personal theatricality and appreciation for the arts. ![]() The plot follows a victim of concentration camp experiments, the deranged anarchist anti-hero in a Guy Fawkes mask that calls himself ‘V’, as he seeks to bring down the government through acts of terrorism. Written in the 1980s at the height of Thatcher’s Britain, Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta is a politically charged graphic novel set in a dystopian near-future world in which Britain has fallen into fascism following a brief nuclear exchange. ![]()
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