1. Reading Presentation

2. Book Presented V for Vendetta A novelization by Steve Moore based on the screenplay written by The Wachowski Brothers

3. Critical Reading Book Aspects of The Novel By E. M. Forster

7. Story and Plot Say them a little sadly, and you will be correct. Yes—oh, dear, yes—novel tells a story. Forster, 68

8. Story and Plot Story: On November 5th in the near future in London, V appears. He calls people to memorize the November 5th by marching on that day, and he will destroy the Houses of Parliament. People start believing in V. November 5ththe next year, V fulfills his promise.

9. Story and Plot … a story [is] a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died,” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. Forster, 130

10. Story and Plot If it is in a story we say “and then?” If it is in a plot we ask “why?” That is the fundamental difference between these two aspects of the novel. Forster, 130

11. Story and Plot Plot: The appearance of V People begin to doubt the government because of the appearance of V. V fulfills his promise because people dare to act against government at last.

14. Story and Plot Plot: The appearance of V People begin to doubt the government because of the appearance of V. V fulfills his promise because people dare to act against government at last. Why does it change?

15. Theme

16. Theme One of the common issues in humanity Pursuit of conformity

17. Theme Pursuit of conformity Time scale: People like things remain unchanged over time. Conform to others: Conformity in Psychology. Conform others: Gain authority.

18. Theme--Pursuit of conformity Time scale: People like things remain unchanged over time. Conform to others: Conformity in Psychology. Conform others: Gain authority.

19. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 1. Fear of change

20. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 1. Fear of change “ ‘…they [Evey’s parents] were at the riot at Leeds. I watched it on the telly, thinking I was going to see my parents killed. I remember them arguing at night. Mum wanted to leave the country…’” Moore, 142-143

21. Theme Pursuit of conformity Time scale: People like things remain unchanged over time. Conform to others: Conformity in Psychology. Conform others: Gain authority.

22. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 2. Conformity to others

23. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 2. Conformity to others Conformity: the tendency of people to go along with the views or actions of others.

24. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 2. Conformity to others Conformity: the tendency of people to go along with the views or actions of others. People act together

25. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 2. Conformity to others Conformity: the tendency of people to go along with the views or actions of others. Live together under tyranny without revolt

26. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 2. Conformity to others Conformity: the tendency of people to go along with the views or actions of others. Live together under tyranny without revolt Watch TV together

27. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 2. Conformity to others Conformity: the tendency of people to go along with the views or actions of others. Live together under tyranny without revolt Watch TV together Question Government together

28. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 2. Conformity to others Conformity: the tendency of people to go along with the views or actions of others. Live together under tyranny without revolt Watch TV together Question Government together Wear masks together

29. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 2. Conformity to others Conformity: the tendency of people to go along with the views or actions of others. Live together under tyranny without revolt Watch TV together Question Government together Wear masks together March together

31. Theme Pursuit of conformity Time scale: People like things remain unchanged over time. Conform to others: Conformity in Psychology. Conform others: Gain authority.

32. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 3. Desire to conform others

33. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 3. Desire to conform others Power induced

34. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 3. Desire to conform others Power induced Sutler

35. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 3. Desire to conform others Sutler V

36. Theme--Pursuit of conformity 3. Desire to conform others Sutler V Creedy

38. <? Game

40. Each person choose a group

41. We vote to eliminate two groups

42. Each person rechoose a group from the 5 remaining groups.

43. Winners: the group you are in has the most people.

45. Each person choose a group

46. We vote to eliminate two groups

47. Each person rechoose a group from the 5 remaining groups.

48. Winners: the group you are in has the most people.

50. Each person choose a group

51. Each person can have a statement.

52. We vote to eliminate two groups

53. Each person rechoose a group from the 5 remaining groups.

54. Winners: the group you are in has the most people.

56. Please don’t join…(a group)

57. Please kill … (a group)

58. Please don’t kill (a group)For example: Please vote for C OR Please don’t kill C

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60. Conflict

61. Conflict

62. Conflict more to describe this conflict than to solve the conflict

64. People Mr. Creedy Greedy An “assistant” of Sutler Ready to betray Sutler Hitler Antagonist Represent tyranny

65. People Sutler Hitler Antagonist Represent tyranny Mr. Creedy Greedy An “assistant” of Sutler Ready to betray Reveal current corrupt. Reveal humanities—pursuit of power. Relationship changes because of power.

66. People V Vendetta Protagonist An idealized symbol Sutler Hitler Antagonist Represent tyranny

67. People V Vendetta Protagonist An idealized symbol Sutler Hitler Antagonist Represent tyranny Use power to conform others. Tragic ending. Identify the conflict.

68. People Evey Eve Deuteragonist Change V’s thought V Vendetta Protagonist An idealized symbol

69. People Evey Eve Deuteragonist Change V’s thought V Vendetta Protagonist An idealized symbol Suffer from tyranny. Interact each other’s thought.

71. Fantasy and Prophecy There is more in the novel than time or people or logic or any of their derivatives, more even than Fate. … I mean something that cut across them like a bar of light, that is intimately connected with them at one place and patiently illumines all their problems, and at another place shoots over or through them as if they did not exist. We shall give that bar of light two names, fantasy and prophecy. Forster, 157

72. Fantasy and Prophecy A sense of “universal”

73. Fantasy and Prophecy A sense of “universal” Central aspects of a great novel

74. Fantasy and Prophecy A sense of “universal” Central aspects of a great novel V

77. Pattern and Rhythm That then is the disadvantage of a rigid pattern. …Beauty has arrived, but in too tyrannous a guise…To most readers of fiction the sensation from a pattern is not intense enough to justify the sacrifices that made it, and their verdict it “Beautifully done, but not worth doing.” Forster, 234

78. Pattern and Rhythm [Rhythm], which may be defined as repetition plus variation. Forster, 240

79. Pattern and Rhythm

80. Pattern and Rhythm

81. Pattern and Rhythm V Faces the government

82. Pattern and Rhythm Sutler

83. Pattern and Rhythm [Rhythm] not to be there all the time like a pattern, but by its lovely waxing and waning to fill us with surprise and freshness and hope. Forster, 239

85. Conclusion

86. Conclusion The story happens in the near future where an authoritarian government rules England. People would rather live under the tyranny because they don’t want change in their life, and because they have a tendency to conform to others, so nobody starts a revolution.

87. Conclusion V, as a symbol of revenge, using violence against violence, calls for a revolution. V acts like a fuse, or a force to push the first domino. People starts to doubt the government. V finally eliminates the government before he dies.

88. Conclusion V is a product of fantasy, he represents an idea, not a person. By separating V’s confrontation against the police and spreading it throughout the story, the novel achieves a rhythm which reveals the gradual change in people’s mind and allows readers to analyze between the intense plots.