Anarchism In Frankenstein

Anarchism in my view is basically a kind of tendency in human thought which shows up in different forms in different circumstances and has some leading characteristics. Primarily it’s a tendency that is suspicious and skeptical of domination, authority, and hierarchy. It demonstrates structures of hierarchy and domination in human life over the whole range, extending from, patriarchal families to imperial systems and it asks whether those systems are justified. It assumes that the burden of proof for anyone in a position of power and authority lies on them. The authority is not self-justifying. They have to give a reason for it, a justification. And if they can’t justify that authority and power and control, which is the usual case, then the

When not wearing the mask, his face is not shown. V's identity is never revealed in the book. The ambiguity of the V character is a running theme through the work, which leaves readers to determine for themselves whether V is sane or psychotic, hero or villain. Before donning the Guy Fawkes mask herself, Evey comes to the conclusion that V's identity is unimportant compared to the role he plays, making his character itself the idea he embodies. V kills a number of people throughout the story. The book suggests that V took his name from the Roman numeral "V", the number of the room he was held in during the experiment. V may very well be a non-anarchist after all. He certainly justifies in his fight against the state, which is nothing more than a band of criminals, and while V appears to correctly understand that anarchy and chaos are two totally separate things. His torture of Evey demonstrates how he is willing to violate the nonaggression axiom. Considering that the nonaggression axiom is what anarchism is all about, his vile act of aggression against Evey throws out whatever certainty we might otherwise have that V is a bona fide anarchist. V is not an anarchist, it will have been his violation of natural