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Student`s Name:Instructor: Course: Date: Personal Freedom, Social Change, and False Justice V For Vendetta is a fictional story based on a government of the future which has taken total control over its subjects, taking every ounce of power from the people`s control. Adam Sutler, the high chancellor, is the leader in charge who is more of a dictator in the story because he suppresses his own people and takes away their free will by using fear and violence to keep them in check. He is an imperialist who in his ascent to power, rounded up individuals whom he considered to be less than pure in prison camps which he used for testing his deadly virus. His tests were successful, and he released the gas on his own people putting the nation in a state of instability. Since the people were distracted by the events, they turned to Sutler to save them from the menace but he, in turn, took advantage and enslaved them all. V knows and sees that the state does not act in the best interests of the people; he does what he can to rid the country of the various negative elements. In this regard, V’s anarchy is justifiable because it is aimed at the common good and done in the search for freedom. Freedom is the prominent theme in V for Vendetta, in comparison to Anarchy. V calls himself an Anarchist. He is of the view that all authority stemming from the governmental power is flawed since it limits the freedom of the people. His actions throughout the novel demonstrate his commitment to uphold freedom. He notes that “Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, the order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining” (Moore and
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