Relationship Between V for Vendetta and Harrison Bergeron

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Dystopia is defined as the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian. Dystopian societies feature different kinds of repressive social control methods and various forms of active and passive intimidation. Works about dystopian societies often explore the concept of humans neglecting technology and humans individually and collectively trying to manage or not being able to properly manage with technology that has progressed far more rapidly than anything else. One story that clearly demonstrates this theme of a dystopian society is Harrison Bergeron, and a form of media that can be compared with it is, the 2005 film V for Vendetta. Both†¦show more content†¦He says that because he was forced to believe it and people are afraid to go back to the days where everyone was fighting with each other because of lack of direction, which is what they thought of as the dark ages. Because the governments in both stories are very controlling, there is one person that stands up to them and shows a significant act of defiance; unfortunately both of them end up dying. In Harrison Bergeron, Harrison is the boy who stands up for his rights by defying the governments rules, by removing his weighs and other handicaps given to him and dancing with a beautiful ballerina ,who has also removed her weights, on national television. As a result of that, both he and the ballerina get shot and killed by the handicapper general. In V for Vendetta, V is the man who believes that people shouldnt be afraid of the government, but that the government should be afraid of the people. Both Harrison Bergeron and V for Vendetta have the same premise and setting of a dystopian society that helps get an idea of how the world really works when one person controls everyone and how that power can corrupt them and take away the integrity of humanity. We see acts of defiance such as those from V for Vendetta, today in the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ strikes. Those strikes are a series of strikes which began because of the protestors beliefs which are against social