V for Vendetta: Home

Over the course of the novel V for Vendetta, you will be identifying mechanisms of control, impacts of control, and methods of resistance to control. From your observations, you will select a topic of focus, and research its real world historical context and usage. You will develop a research question that explores your topic and connects it in some way to the novel.

NoodleTools- make sure to remember to cite and annotate all sources that you use in your project.

Part One: Historical Context — Select one

Regimes:

• Nazism, Germany, 1933-1945 (CP Only)
• Italian Fascism, Italy, 1922-1945
• Statism, Japan, 1926-1945
• Austro-fascism, Austria, 1933-1945
• Integralist party, Brazil, 1932-1938
• Chiangism, China, 1924-1949
• Vichy regime, France, 1940-1944
• 4th of August Regime, Greece, 1936-1941
• Estado Novo, Portugal, 1933-1974
• Falange Española Party, Spain, 1936-1975
• Ossewabrandwag, South Africa, 1930s-40s
• National Party, South Africa, 1948-1990s

Movement Leaders: Please note, that there is not consensus amongst scholars that all of the movement leaders listed below have strictly fascist/quasi-fascist ideologies. However, each one has demonstrated characteristics of fascism and has advocated for or attempted to implement tools of fascism as mechanisms of control.

• Eric Campbell, Australia
• Adrien Arcand, Canada
• Jorge González von Marées, Chile
• Miguel Serrano, Chile
• Eoin O’Duffy, Ireland
• Pierre Gemayel, Lebanon
• Nicolas Rodriguez Carrasco, Mexico
• Anton Mussert and Cornelis van Geelkerken, Netherlands
• Konrad Hallgren, Sweden
• Sir Conrad Mosely, United Kingdom
• Huey Long, United States

Topic Selection Part Two: Tools of Fascism — Select one from this page, or propose your own (that you see evidenced in V for Vendetta but not listed here)

• Strong Central Government
• Militarism 
• Cult of Personality
• Authoritarian/Totalitarian Dictator
• Surveillance State
• Scapegoating
• Propaganda
• Corporatism 
• Censorship of/State Sponsored Media
• Extreme Nationalism
• Suppression of Art/Intellectualism
• Strict Economic Control
• Use of Violence as Intimidation
• Human Rights Violations
• Violence towards and/or advocacy/attempted eradication of racial/ethnic/religious/other “outsider” groups
• Merging of the Religion and the State
• Removal of Individual Civil Liberties (freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, right to trial by jury, free and fair elections, etc.)