George Orwell's Dystopian V For Vendetta

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A dystopia is an “imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one”. George Orwell’s 1984 is a dystopian society set in the year 1984. Orwell, predicting a future under totalitarian reign, similar to that of Stalin’s, wrote of a government known as the Party. The Party is an empire built through fear and treachery over its citizens. James McTeigue’s dystopian V for Vendetta had a similar government known as the Nosefire Party. Both the Party and the Nosefire Party are totalitarian governments with no tolerance for disobedience, however, only the Party was able to succeed in destroying the instinct of hope from its citizens. Such hope would lead to the eventual downfall