Aiden Dorant Mr Priest Graphic Novels Ignorance Is Bliss Throughout the Graphic Novel V for Vendetta written by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, there are multiple allegorical social justice elements. Including the phrase, “Happiness is a prison...Happiness is the most insidious prison of all” (169/1). In this quote, V is alluding to the sense that if one is content in their current situation, they will see no need to fix the issues around them. V went through the oppression firsthand that the British Norse fire had to give, and Evey was of the key demographic, it took exposure to that oppression for Evey to make a solution to the society. If you want to compare the Norsefire Regime to that of Nazi Germany and the Civil Rights Movement, there …show more content…
Chesterton once said, “ You’ll never see the problem if you can’t find the solution.” and that seems to embody what V is trying to get to Evey. Evey knows the problem is the Norsefire political party , and it’s not a foreign concept to her either, her dad was killed by Norsefire, leaving her an orphan after her mom died. Now in this case, Evey is not happy at all, her life is miserable and she’s lost. But, I think “ happiness in this context is ignorance and oblivion. Evey wasn’t happy but she didn’t really know what exactly the root cause of her suffering was. All she knew is that there was a facist party that didn’t like any minority of any kind. “White people, too. All the radicals, and you know, the men that liked other men. The Homosexuals. I don’t know what they did with them.”(30/4 Evey’s traumatic experience had started a resentment towards the party but the lack of knowledge of what happened to the detainees is what hindered her from taking action against them, unlike V who held animosity towards Norsefire and everyone involved with his encampment. There was a reason Evey used “White people, too.” It was because white people who were in line with the party’s eurocentric views were immune to the treatment that the social minorites were subject