V For Vendetta Hero Essay

Alan Moore is a renowned writer. He uses the morality of his many characters to express flaws in humanity. Two of his greatest hits Watchmen and V for Vendetta, face moral dilemmas, two characters face the delima of either being ‘Heroes’ or ‘Terrorists’. Ozymandius is the world’s smartest man, he plans the destruction of millions for societies own good, V is a freedom fighter who is using excess force to bring down the corrupt government.

Ozymandius is considered the smartest man in the world — very accurate. His genius can be compared to Dr. Manhattan a freak accident in a reactor who can now control particles. As the smartest man he devises a plan to end an upcoming war between world leaders — U.S.A and Russia — to further the existence of

He was known as a hero in his time when being a vigilante was legal, but with this severe and destructive action he starts entering the grey area between hero and terrorist. As he is doing it for the good of mankind, knowing that this is the only solution to eliminate the threat of their own extinction by their own hands. He murder those who helped and knew of his plot as he wants to keep it under wraps, speaking about his journey “Their greatest secrets, however, were entrusted to their servants buried alive with them in sand-flooded chambers” (Alan Moore). Giving a speech about how pharaohs buried all their belongings with them in some way he is doing the same as he is eliminating all those that know of his plot. As Niccolo Machiavelli once said “Never was anything great achieved without danger”, being the smartest man he knows that his plan is the only way to successfully rid the chances of human’s extinction. Going to very extreme measures to do so can lead to people thinking he is a terrorist, but he is doing it for the future of mankind. If there was another way to have stopped humanity from destroying each other he would have thought of it but there was not. Niccolo Machiavelli also has stated