V For Vendetta And Macbeth Comparison

V V for Vendetta was a movie made in 2006 it is about a masked vigilante named “V” he blows up parliament to free his fellow countrymen from a totalitarian country. This movie takes place in a dystopian future in Great Britain. While, many may not believe the fact that V for Vendetta and Shakespeare are correlated, they are. To be specific, Shakespeare’s playwrights Hamlet and Macbeth are both allusions in V for Vendetta. In the movie, V had been tortured and wronged, but he cannot seek revenge through legitimate law because the people who he is after, are the government. Throughout the movie, V tries to justify his actions through a person who was tortured alongside him, Valerie. Valerie was persecuted by the government because she

V claims that justice is biased “towards those who control, and run it, the authorities in uniform.” Which is why V dropped justice and deemed it unfit. Further into depth, one might speculate that Anne Boleyn represented anarchy. Her marriage to Henry, and her death made her a major importance in the political and religious uprising in the English reformation. (Shakespeare In V for Vendetta 1) Many critics argue that in Macbeth, Shakespeare sympathizes with Catholics and their struggle for liberty. Likewise, in V for Vendetta there are hints at the fact that V is a Catholic. Furthermore, in real life, the actual V (Guy Fawkes) tried to blow parliament to free Catholics of English persecution. This creates a major paradox because a Catholic terrorist tried to blow up parliament. In contrast, throughout history and today millions of people have died and are dying because of conflicts between religions. Shakespeare is said to have had tight relationship with the real plotters of parliament. At the time of the Gunpowder plot in 1606, Shakespeare wrote Macbeth. Readers of Shakespeare say that the Gunpowder plot had greatly impacted Macbeth and influenced the writing for it. However, readers believe instead of supporting the plotters in Macbeth, Shakespeare tried to distance himself from