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Freud Cont.

  • Concept of branches being the "Eye," the "Ear," the "Nose," and the "Mouth," with the police being the "fingers."
  • Freud's theory about the connection between the unconscious mind, repressed memories, and hysteria.
  • V's mind is consumed by the injections and pain
  • Sexual Desires
  • The Oedipus Complex
  • Present in Evey - V satisfies this need

Freud & psychoanalysis

Marxism Cont.

"Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse." (V For Vendetta, 2005)

Marxism Cont.

  • Marxist idea of False Consciousness
  • The dominant dystopian government controls all media sources and pushes their ideologies through every outlet
  • these ideas create the exploitation within society

Eugenics

  • Id- sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories; expresses basic human needs and desires
  • Ego- the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego
  • Superego- the conscience and/or judge
  • The Bourgeois utilize the tools created by television to establish their ideologies to desensitize the mass audiences
  • "behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea...and ideas are bulletproof." (V For vendetta, 2005)
  • class consciousness
  • Internment concentration camps for people seen as 'undesirables'
  • Homosexuals, mentally ill, different races, & those in political opposition
  • V sent here and experimented on
  • develop a power biological weapon
  • Superego- The Party & Adam Susan
  • Evey- Ego
  • V- Id

Marxism

  • Freud's Conflict Theory
  • present when V is in conflict with The Party
  • The struggle between the Bourgeoisie and Proletarians (the oppressor and the oppressed) is the foundation to classical Marxism -- and is bound to end through revolution

Summary

  • futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain
  • vigilante known only as "V" ignites a revolution when he detonates two London landmarks and takes over the government-controlled airwaves
  • Evey becomes an ally in his plot to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.
  • The film is separated with a class system that resembles the ruling class- the capitalist government, and the working class- the everyday people, the mass audience
  • "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people." (V For Vendetta, 2005)

V for Vendetta

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