Government and Control
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Government & Control
VFV & BNW
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Present Day
V For Vendetta-VFV: The people of London nowadays keep themselves inside for their government completely controls them through their fear and pain, the terrifying reason for this chaos is the government has an enormous army that can utterly crush the citizens, this army will also eliminate all people that make fun or humiliate the consular who is the controller of all others. Unfortunately the people of this country will not try to rebel against this corrupt government, except for one single man, his name is V.
V is a man who has spent his whole life trying to free the people, and at the same time utterly destroy the government for what they did to him years ago. For what happened to him was inhuman, why well the government had kidnapped him and a large amount of other innocent citizens and used them for experiments, he truly does not even remember his real name because he was tortured horribly and treated cruelly, so he got his name from his cell letter which was V therefore adopting the letter as his name. Unfortunately while V was in a large room with lots of other victims the area exploded and there was fire everywhere, this though caused V’s whole body to get burnt, he was in agonizing pain and absolutely wanted to strike back at the government and those who helped them. Therefore he does free the people by going through some steps. First he went to each of the important people that had caused him all of the pain and suffering, after killing them he then he sends out hundreds of masks that he would wear and the people would walk through the streets and go through a large army that blocked their way, unfortunately the blockade did not work for the citizens just went right through, for the citizens were determined to experience the explosion. He then eliminated the counselor and blows up his building by sending a train under it that was holding hundreds of bombs, this gives the people hope for their future.
Brave New World-BNW: The English people are now not even considered true people for they are created artificially and not truly born like a normal human is usually born. Astonishingly the citizens are happy and always cheerful for there is no pain and no hatred for the government has controlled these people because they have found a way to make the people sober with all the pleasures in the world. This is not the only thing that makes the people of this world perfect, when they are made and first become babies they are taken into a room and conditioned. What this means is the babies are either electrocuted or stunned so that they do not do a certain thing or
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do not like a certain thing. But there are other pleasures for example they got rid of all the mosquitoes so that there would be less pain. Then if anyone is upset or starting to get angry or upset they created a strange pill called soma, this substance tricks the mind and the person to believe that they are in a paradise and are on a vacation. Therefore resulting complete and utter happiness, so the person has no worries at all. Fortunately there are men that can see what is wrong in this world; their names are John, Bernard, and Helmholtz. These men truly would like to show the people but unfortunately it is practically impossible. John tries to show the people that pain must be in happiness so he whips himself; unfortunately the people see it as humor. Another thing that John would like to show the people is Shakespeare, what caused him to do this is when he read it there was emotion and feeling and he knew well enough that these did not exist here. Then for Bernard and Helmholtz they truly cannot do anything for if they do then they would be shipped off to another place so that they could not cause any trouble. Therefore their only hope is to just sit and pray that someone changes the world.
Present Time: American citizens are now living in a world like these two except for they are similar to the world that we live in to this day. How? Our world is similar to BNW because the government has tried to make our living areas nice and have lots of fun things to do so that there is no one unhappy; the best example for this is Paris. I say this because everything there is pleasure and almost no one is unhappy when they go there. Why this is well the reason is that there is entertainment like the famous buildings such as the Eye of London and the Eiffel Tower, and the great food for example the savory pasta and delicate pastries that they make for pure enjoyment, all of these things attract and please others.
Another thing that makes our world somewhat like BNW is that our country does have drugs to calm others down just like soma, what types of drugs, well mostly the legal ones that get rid of pain such as morphine, codeine. These all are things help people calm down and therefore related to soma because they are taking away the worries of the person. There are those other drugs that are illegal, even if they are they still calm people down therefore relating to BNW. These drugs would be cocaine and heroin, yet these still change the mind and drug it to be calm and relaxed.
But on the other hand our world to this day is also like VFV because if the government is threatened by some other person or a group of people then their first thing to do is strike out at the rebels and if the threat is huge then they will use the huge army that they control, such as the US army that is in our possession. Then there is the final stage, the people that try to make the government have less control over the people. There are many kinds of these people that are like John and V, but these people have somewhat succeeded and others have not. How have they succeeded well there are some people that will protest and try to fight back at the government by complaining, therefore the government must give in so that they are happy.
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These people are like John in a way because he tried to free the people without fighting or without major conflict. An example of these types of people is Martin Luther King. He had tried to free the African-Americans without violence and instead with words, therefore the government immediately struck out at him and eventually he was killed, fortunately his words stuck to others and then there were hundreds of people that tried to free the African-Americans. In BNW Bernard and Helmholtz were the followers of John. Then there are the other people that are trying to free us by blowing up government buildings and striking out at the government members and abolishing them so that there would be less control. These people are like V because this is exactly what he was doing and was what he thought was the only way for the cruel government to end their control. An example of these types of people is Timothy McVeigh, he was a veteran that betrayed them and blew up a truck that had explosives in front of a federal government building. There were other people like him that have tried this repeatedly and are trying to do what Timothy has done, all these efforts trying to rid of the government. The truth in this is that our world that we live in is almost exactly like these two worlds combined and we don’t even know it.
The End
Government & Control
VFV & BNW
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Present Day
V For Vendetta-VFV: The people of London nowadays keep themselves inside for their government completely controls them through their fear and pain, the terrifying reason for this chaos is the government has an enormous army that can utterly crush the citizens, this army will also eliminate all people that make fun or humiliate the consular who is the controller of all others. Unfortunately the people of this country will not try to rebel against this corrupt government, except for one single man, his name is V.
V is a man who has spent his whole life trying to free the people, and at the same time utterly destroy the government for what they did to him years ago. For what happened to him was inhuman, why well the government had kidnapped him and a large amount of other innocent citizens and used them for experiments, he truly does not even remember his real name because he was tortured horribly and treated cruelly, so he got his name from his cell letter which was V therefore adopting the letter as his name. Unfortunately while V was in a large room with lots of other victims the area exploded and there was fire everywhere, this though caused V’s whole body to get burnt, he was in agonizing pain and absolutely wanted to strike back at the government and those who helped them. Therefore he does free the people by going through some steps. First he went to each of the important people that had caused him all of the pain and suffering, after killing them he then he sends out hundreds of masks that he would wear and the people would walk through the streets and go through a large army that blocked their way, unfortunately the blockade did not work for the citizens just went right through, for the citizens were determined to experience the explosion. He then eliminated the counselor and blows up his building by sending a train under it that was holding hundreds of bombs, this gives the people hope for their future.
Brave New World-BNW: The English people are now not even considered true people for they are created artificially and not truly born like a normal human is usually born. Astonishingly the citizens are happy and always cheerful for there is no pain and no hatred for the government has controlled these people because they have found a way to make the people sober with all the pleasures in the world. This is not the only thing that makes the people of this world perfect, when they are made and first become babies they are taken into a room and conditioned. What this means is the babies are either electrocuted or stunned so that they do not do a certain thing or
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do not like a certain thing. But there are other pleasures for example they got rid of all the mosquitoes so that there would be less pain. Then if anyone is upset or starting to get angry or upset they created a strange pill called soma, this substance tricks the mind and the person to believe that they are in a paradise and are on a vacation. Therefore resulting complete and utter happiness, so the person has no worries at all. Fortunately there are men that can see what is wrong in this world; their names are John, Bernard, and Helmholtz. These men truly would like to show the people but unfortunately it is practically impossible. John tries to show the people that pain must be in happiness so he whips himself; unfortunately the people see it as humor. Another thing that John would like to show the people is Shakespeare, what caused him to do this is when he read it there was emotion and feeling and he knew well enough that these did not exist here. Then for Bernard and Helmholtz they truly cannot do anything for if they do then they would be shipped off to another place so that they could not cause any trouble. Therefore their only hope is to just sit and pray that someone changes the world.
Present Time: American citizens are now living in a world like these two except for they are similar to the world that we live in to this day. How? Our world is similar to BNW because the government has tried to make our living areas nice and have lots of fun things to do so that there is no one unhappy; the best example for this is Paris. I say this because everything there is pleasure and almost no one is unhappy when they go there. Why this is well the reason is that there is entertainment like the famous buildings such as the Eye of London and the Eiffel Tower, and the great food for example the savory pasta and delicate pastries that they make for pure enjoyment, all of these things attract and please others.
Another thing that makes our world somewhat like BNW is that our country does have drugs to calm others down just like soma, what types of drugs, well mostly the legal ones that get rid of pain such as morphine, codeine. These all are things help people calm down and therefore related to soma because they are taking away the worries of the person. There are those other drugs that are illegal, even if they are they still calm people down therefore relating to BNW. These drugs would be cocaine and heroin, yet these still change the mind and drug it to be calm and relaxed.
But on the other hand our world to this day is also like VFV because if the government is threatened by some other person or a group of people then their first thing to do is strike out at the rebels and if the threat is huge then they will use the huge army that they control, such as the US army that is in our possession. Then there is the final stage, the people that try to make the government have less control over the people. There are many kinds of these people that are like John and V, but these people have somewhat succeeded and others have not. How have they succeeded well there are some people that will protest and try to fight back at the government by complaining, therefore the government must give in so that they are happy.
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These people are like John in a way because he tried to free the people without fighting or without major conflict. An example of these types of people is Martin Luther King. He had tried to free the African-Americans without violence and instead with words, therefore the government immediately struck out at him and eventually he was killed, fortunately his words stuck to others and then there were hundreds of people that tried to free the African-Americans. In BNW Bernard and Helmholtz were the followers of John. Then there are the other people that are trying to free us by blowing up government buildings and striking out at the government members and abolishing them so that there would be less control. These people are like V because this is exactly what he was doing and was what he thought was the only way for the cruel government to end their control. An example of these types of people is Timothy McVeigh, he was a veteran that betrayed them and blew up a truck that had explosives in front of a federal government building. There were other people like him that have tried this repeatedly and are trying to do what Timothy has done, all these efforts trying to rid of the government. The truth in this is that our world that we live in is almost exactly like these two worlds combined and we don’t even know it.
The End