How are Harrison Burgeron, 1984 and V for Vendetta alike?
They are similar in the aspect that they all provide fairly grim & horrifying visions of the future & try to portray the ultimate horror that can befell human beings – the suppression of free will. This injustice is so huge and unbearable that characters begin to rebel, whether the rebellion is more in thought than in act like in 1984(none the less heroic for it) or when it is more drastic like in Vendetta. The audience’s principle investment in these kinds of stories is that we are hooked with the main characters because we think that the future of humanity rests on these small acts of courage of these individuals. Also the imagery that each portrays of devastated landscapes is brooding and similar.
