Short Stories

"Soul of a New Machine"--

V for Vendetta

Part 1-- We spoke about the simularities of this story to Watchmen due to having the same author. We talked about things that the movie got wrong, such as making V's actions much less of a vendetta and making Evey a much smaller part of the story. We also talked about the fact that Evey is the main character of the story.

Also, we spoke of how everything is setting up so far and how, while the governent is corrupt, it is an ideal facist system.

Part 2--  In Book 2 of "V for Vendetta" V becomes more of a side character and the other characters start to stand out more and have a greater importance to the story.  Evey was knocked out of the roost by V, after asking him if he was her father!  This is due in part because V feels like she needs some more independence of her own and that she needs to stop being so co-dependent upon others.  Most of the people in part 2 of this story seem to be just like Evey, they are so co-dependent and lack any since of integrity, to the point where they are all spineless worms wiggling on the hook of a vicious vermon.  The dictator has imposed his will to the point were they all have become venomous vegetables.  Rose in this story is another example of these weak brain washed people she is so co-dependent upon another that after her husband started pushing up daisies she refused to just move on and smell the roses, she sought confort from yet anoter person yet not just anyone, some one she practically hates!  In the first book V Vas most vallantly victoriest in variest Vays, for he sought out his personal vendetta and served himself a ice cold dish of vengeance!  In this 2nd book however he seems to have refocused his attention now toward a different sort of vengeance, a vendetta for the people who have only them selves to blame for all that has become their world.  For V wishes to spread his since of vigiliance with all others and to bring about the dawning of a new age in which the people who have legs stand up out of their chairs and use their legs, a world in which the individual rights of a man out weigh the rights of the people as a whole!  "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings, neither you nor I should impose our will upon the people of this planet!"  Transformers, Oltimus Prime speaking to Megatron.  In this world we our selves live in I fear that the impending fate of us all is that soon enough our own world shall fall pry to the lips of herosy and deception and then we will turn this fiction to fact in such a since!  Live long and prosper!

This portion of V for Vendetta also has to do with Evey and her problems pertaining a little bit to her "Daddy issues" and a little bit of her background. V decides that in order to make her fully understand what's going on and grow up a little bit that he has to let her go and fend for herself for a while. So, he pretty much just takes her out of his little compound and leaves her on the street for just anybody to find, hoping that she'll fend for herself. She ends up finding shelter with a friend of her father's by the name of Gordon, who is really more of a "father figure" than anything else. The girl has serious daddy issues. There are a couple of flash backs and comparisons from Gordon to her father and back again and how she sees him as more of a provider and a protector than anything else. Eventually, the goverment crashes down their door and arrests Gordon for crimes he has commited against the country, for having various things in his possession and speaking out against them and Evey is taken as well and locked up, her hair shaved and arrested and imprisoned for treason and consorting with the terrorist V. She is tortured mercilessly and while in her cell she finds a peice of paper pertaining to the biography of a woman named Val, who was a lesbian. It's a very touching scene and my favorite so far in the book and in the movie. It's beauitful and Evey realizes that she does not want to sell out her integrety and her soul to save her life. So she does not. In the end, she finds out that she was never really trapped at all and that it was some crazy cell in the bottom of V's house. He sort of brainwashes her almost, but then again, actually doesn't, but still does make her see in his way and not her own. Oddly enough. 

Part 3-- Ah yes, the ending... This is the part where V's master plan finishes with the spectacular boom that he is known for. His cultivated Rose kills the Leader,  and he gots himself killed by Finch so he can pass the V mantle onto Evey. V's final act of vengence has been taken against the world that created the monster he is. But is he really a monster? What term best difines him? Monster? Genius? Terrorist? Savior? that is up to whose point of view your basing it on.

Or, rather, one could say that V is a story element and not a character. So, he couldn't really be called anything.