After having reading 1984 and V for Vendetta I realized that truth is stranger than fiction and it is not necessary that we would be under a totalitarianism regime for some things to happen.
One of the events that caught my attention the most when reading V for Vendetta was the part in which there is this priest that actually is a pedophile, and I was glad that this panel was shown in class because I was able to understand some details that I could not get when I was first reading the graphic novel.
It caught my attention because it was a well known secret the behavior of this priest and what he was used to do and with whom. However, it was accepted anyway by the government. Maybe I was not that surprised when I was reading the book, but in a way it still shocked me. Today happens something similar in that matter. Everybody knows that the Catholic Church has been through hard times due to cases of pedophilia among some of its members. The similarity here is that even though it is not morally correct, some of those cases have been hidden from the public eye by the Church itself.
So in a way, even though we are not inside of a totalitarian system, we are able to see how different manisfestations of corruption occurs in our democratic society.
References
Moore, Alan
and Lloyd. V for Vendetta. New York: Vertigo, DC Comics, 1982. Print.
I like the way you relate what happens in V for Vendetta with our own reality. Other than the case with pedophiles and the catholic church, I believe the media manipulates information in many other ways too, the teachers' strike that has been greatly concealed by the media in the last few weeks being a clear example of it.
ResponderEliminarAdditionally, I believe the topic you choose also allows us to connect V for Vendetta and 1984 as in both of them it is shown how the truth can be manipulated to benefit certain groups or individuals.