The Night of the Long Knives was the name Hitler gave to his purge of the SA. Hitler found out about a conspiracy to have him removed because the SA had the power to remove him. So with that Knowledge he called for a meeting and there he arrested the leader Ernst Roehm and also arrested 200 other senior officers. Many were shot as they were captured and in the end he also had Roehm killed. He made sure the next leader for them was weak so in the end they lost their power.
The last domino could stand for V, and what he has to do to complete the plan. Another symbol in the movie was the blowing up of the parliament, which V gave his life to do. V said in the movie, “Buildings are symbols and so is the act of destroying them. Symbols are given power by people, and with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world.” The destroying of the parliament symbolized the destruction of a government, and the rise of the people and their freedom. V himself is a symbol.
Hitler then took away the “Power of the People” by replacing parliament with a self proclaimed dictatorship, which most Germans welcomed. Hitler was often described as a “Leader that got mad with power” as he lead a war that lead to many, many people dying. This so called “madness” leads to him taking over Poland and starting the war, consequently meaning Germany broke the “Treaty of Versailles”. After Germany took over Poland, Britain declared war on Germany as they refused to leave from Germany and the fact that they broke the “Treaty of Versailles”. After Britain declared war on Germany, France joined in with Britain as they felt threatened that Germany was going to take over them.
Professor Kagan stated that “People seem to think that only nuclear weapons can thoroughly destroy a civilization, but when the Athenians got through with Melos, they killed all the men and sold all the women and children into slavery. I regard that as sufficiently horrendous an outcome that to speak of worse is pointless.” The fact that he said to speak of worse is pointless boggles my mind. Thinking of worse possibilities is never pointless, I mean isn’t that the reason we all have insurance? To be prepared for those situations that just might happen but usually don’t. For example, my parents have been paying for flood insurance for god knows how many years but not once have had to use it, and who knows if they ever will, but if they decided to stop paying for flood insurance then suddenly one day their house floods it would take
For example in “Destroying Avalon” Avalon had to face the death of her best friend Marshall who took his own life because of being bullied for so many years and not letting anyone to support him through his tough times. “Marshall is dead” was repeated in the book to emphasize the feeling of grief Avalon faced. In “The Colour Purple” death and loss is shown when both Celie’s children are taken away from her at birth and is given the impression that they where killed. Bullying occurs the day you are born by society determining colours, interest and behaviours that suit the type of gender you are. However bullying doesn’t really show it’s self until we go to school, this style of bullying can be verbal, physical or electronic.
Both Winston and V want to take down a dystopian government that rules by people intoxicated with power. They both believe a revolution can happen if the proletarians rise up. The main power of each work (Big Brother in 1984 and the government in V for Vendetta) tries to suppress the people and ruin their lives by using fear. The main characters V, Evey, Winston, and Julia all represent the rebellion. Both the movie and the book have the government watching the people to gain control.
There is many connections from the beginning scene to the final scene in the film, the director does this to emphasise how history repeats itself and how an idea, unlike a man, is ‘bulletproof’ and can live forever. An obvious connection between the two scenes is the plan to destroy the buildings of parliament with fireworks. Guy Fawkes is a man that is known for wanting to blow up the buildings of parliament because he didn’t agree with the government at the time. Thankfully for the British government, he was caught and executed before he could attempt the plan again. The film is set hundreds of years after Guy Fawkes in a dystopian world of England that is controlled by a much stricter British government called Norsefire.
V For Vendetta James McTeigue Film 2/07/2012 In V for Vendetta, directed by James McTeigue is about a man named V with an idea to rebel against an oppressive government in a dystopian society. V, after blowing up the Old Bailey with fireworks, tells the people of London that he will blow up Parliament in a years’ time on the 5th of November. Evey Hammond gets caught up in V’s act after trying to escape the police, helps V out and gets stuck with him. She gets transformed into a stronger person and in the end, helps V with his plan. A major idea in V for Vendetta is masks and identity.
People feel they are being patriots by protesting everything the government does and find flaws with everything in this country. This also does not serve the country in a positive way. Always pointing out flaws and never helping to find a solution does not better the country in any way. To be patriotic is to love and respect fellow citizens, to take care of the land and the natural environment, to be active in elections, and to be able to see its flaws and weaknesses and to help turn them into strengths. Love and respect of fellow citizens is crucial to being patriotic.
In this post-apocalyptic world, where the extreme radiation from the nuclear fallout has destroyed nearly every form of life, companies began creating artificial animals and humans that takes the form of androids. The fear that these androids would one day become intelligently enough to rebell their creators prompted the government to stop them living on the Earth. Rick Deckard was an official bounty hunter whose responsibility was to “retire” androids.