The Endless Cycle

An Endless Cycle
He stands among the bodies of his victims. His lips are smeared with the blood of the innocent. His dark, merciless eyes gaze towards a nearby town and hopes that he’ll have another chance to play, another chance to maim, another chance to destroy. He hears a small child crying cradling the lifeless body of her mother. He smiles. The sound gives him exhilaration every time he hears it – this is his lullaby. Rivers run with blood after he is finished. this is his work. That is his legacy. This is the vendetta, “[the] family blood-feud” (Oxford).
Historically, vendettas have been chaotic blood feuds that have last for generations. There have been instances where an entire village was razed to the ground, the entire population massacred just to punish and kill a little girl (Wikipedia). The “vendetta” in “V for Vendetta” is essential piece in this artistic masterpiece. The movie is, in essence, a vendetta between the main character, V, and the group known as the Party. Other possible word choices could have been vengeance, revenge, or retribution. While these words are synonyms of vendetta, none of them posses the bloody history and connotation that vendetta expresses. The main character, V, was wrongfully imprisoned by the socialist government, called the Party, which now rules England. He decides that he will enact revenge on all those who have harmed him and his fellow countrymen.
As stated before, there are other words that could have been chosen instead of vendetta. They all denotatively mean the same thing. Someone wrongs you so you in turn wrong them. But only vendetta has the connotative implications that the James McTeigue, the director, was looking for. Vendettas seem to be unbreakable; once you begin one its icy chains bind you to the cause. Not only that, but vendettas also implicate an entire group of people instead of targeting the guilty culprits. In the film, members of the Party start separating themselves from the government in an attempt to save themselves from V’s unstoppable judgment and condemnation of the Party. They would rather no longer be affiliated with the Party than have to deal with the possible consequences. Vendettas are merciless, there are no innocents. If you are a member the group, you are the enemy.
Besides V, there is one other chief character that the story is told through. Evee has never been too happy with the Party after they kidnapped her parents and forced her into the government foster program. She meets V and sees how his determination for vengeance has taken over his life when he says that “the only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous” (McTeigue). She has a choice placed before her. She can either start a vendetta of her own or watch how things will unfold without her interference. She knows that vendettas are a life consuming entity and once you start one it must be finished. She has seen through history the unrelenting force that a vendetta can become but she cannot resist V’s call for aid. She seals her fate with V’s and sees every member of the Party as an enemy.

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