Essay: Themes in V for Vendetta and Androids
Our third (and last!!!) formal essay should be a minimum of 1000 words and should be submitted to Blackboard Assignments in Word compatible (.doc or .docx) format, or else Rich Text Format (.rtf). A minimum of six direct quotations from the readingshould be used to support and illustrate your writing, those direct quotes being correctly integrated with sentences and using in-text citations. Please choose one of the below topics for a comparative/contrasted discussion and analysis of themes in Moore and Lloyd's V for Vendetta and Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? If you have a different idea that you would like to write about, I am always open to hearing about that!
Choose one of the below topics for Essay three, and a different topic to address for the final, the in-class essay.
Themes Common to V for Vendetta and Androids
1. What makes a human "human"?
2. Gender roles and relationships between men and women
3. Relationships between human characters and non-human entities (For example, the Fate computer and androids)
4. What fears or anxieties about society/civilization and the future of humanity are revealed by the fictional circumstances of these two dystopias?
5. Morality of a main character: when the main character commits acts of violence, are those acts justifiable?