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V for Vendetta Essay General Plan #1 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - With this in mind, James McTeague’s ‘V for Vendetta’ examines the extent to which Hobbes’ propounded doctrine for security through authority proves more successful than anarchy in practice.
    - - By presenting the implications of anarchic society and its moral equivalency with Hobbesian security through...McTeague forces us to acknowledge the impossibility of sustained perfect anarchy.
- - - - Usually indicates subjugation to a larger force
      - Supporters also wearing V's mask and cloak
        
        suggest that population are under control of V's beliefs and ideals
        
        Even though they are free to self-govern, they choose to subjugate themselves
        
        Cannot achieve self determination, hence V's revolution has failed
        
        Destined to lapse back into Hobbesian security
        
        Relates back to idea of structuralism
- - - - replacement of Hobbesian government with V’s anarchic system is overwhelmingly positive occasion.
  - - - Pierre Joseph Proudhon , 'The General Idea of the Revolution" wrote - "to be governed is to be watched, spied upon...."
      - Visual allusion to Blind Lady justice, Old Bailey perhaps representative of Proudhon's twisted justice
      - V's destruction of Old Bailey represents goal to destroy corrupt Hobbesian government; freedom
- - - - Mise-en-scene resembles Larkhill
      - Orange jumpsuits, dirty conditions, blue tinted lighting
      - Notably, V in position of Norsefire, implies similarity between them
        
        V all too willing to emulate methods to achieve goal
        
        If V is unable to deviate from existing edifices of society, how will British public
        
        V is supposed radical stripped of all worldly tethers
        
        V is demonstrative of Structulism
        
        Theory proposed by Ferdinand De Saussure
        
        People and ideas bound by, and products of existing structures around them existing edifices of society
        
        If V constituents so heavily inhibited, same can be said for British people
        
        Signifying the failure of revoluton
        
        Costuming of Edmond Dantes, constitutive self-characterization highlight inability to act of own volition, and deviate from