Trascendental Vendettas: Evey's evolution questioned

Looking up for some information regarding the role women are given in the graphic novel, I found a very interesting kind of essay in a blog related to feminism which, unlike most of the analyses related to the novel, which is a dissenting voice in regards to Evey's process of evolution as the story goes by.

First of all, we can see women's role questioned since it is stated that most of the feminine characters are only sexualized, dependent on men and seen as victims of them and Evey is thought to be more like a tool for V than a person who goes through a growing process from an innocent and naive sixteen years old girl to an individual capable of defending herself, think critically and question the whole system that was ruling her context to rebel against it.

Furthermore, on this post (which you can find here), it is said that Evey is manipulated, used and shaped by V for her to do everything that he wishes and to continue his mission in society

"V’s torture of Evey is designed to break down everything that makes her herself, except for her essential core. Once she is stripped naked, he can rebuild her as he chooses. She no longer has any agency, she never considers leaving the man who betrayed and tortured her. She stays, like a loyal pet, and does whatever he wants. And she continues to love him, kisses him and thanks him profusely for his monstrous behavior. She protests whinily when he continues to leave her in the dark, to give her riddles for answers."

In this regard, I must say this text completely caught my attention and made me question what I thought was the final stage Evey reached at the end of the novel and although I consider myself a feminist since I'm entirely concerned about the issue and I'm constantly looking up for information related to the topic, I must differ with the opinion of the writer due to the fact that we can not say that V is only another selfish person who wants a person to to whatever he wants because he wants it but because he believes something must change in this dystopian society in which information is overly dominated by a totalitarian system that is being accepted and not questioned by most of the population.

"Evey is not a woman: she is a child. She is a girl playing dress up when she is introduced, a child in her mom’s make-up. When she lives with V, he reads her bedtime stories in a room full of teddy bears. At her moment of transcendence, when V tells her what all the torture has led to, tells her that she can reach herself, she screams for her mommy and daddy and sobs in the arms of her protector."

Although Evey starts as a fragile girl and V protects her, it is possible to say that he protected her and helped her to grow up and protect herself. I would even dare to say that she could have chose any way of thinking if she wanted, but she decided to continue V's mission because she was able to stop, stare and perfectly see what was going on around her. That is why she adopted V's ideas and not because she was manipulated or something similar.

Evey's role changed through the novel till she empowered herself and showed a complete transformation of her identity, more from an androgynous position than from a feminine or masculine one, and although some of the criticism question this view of a man training a woman on how to be independent and that the ideal conditions would be that the individual oneself goes through his or her own process of maturity, I would say it doesn't matter whether it is a male or female the one who helps the other to become a better person who can develop critical thinking

"Evey would not have achieved this particular freedom without V. Acting as her guide and mentor, he takes it upon himself to teach her the life lessons he considers necessary for her to learn – therefore, he is the provider and she is the dependent. In this case, he takes his control over her life to the extreme of imprisoning her, torturing and starving her, and making her believe she is about to be executed."