V For Vendetta Terrorist

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V for Vendetta is a very famous movie and often a question is raised when watching it, or in this case after reading the graphic novel; is V a terrorist? People come up with their own reasoning to why or why not V is a terrorist, but when comparing his actions to the definition of a terrorist, “the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.”¹ Therefore making V a terrorist.

A terrorist is someone who uses violence to obtain something within a political sense. Terrorists exist not only in books or movies, but in real day to day life. For example Alexandre Bissonnette, the gunman of the Quebec mosque shooting. Alexander opened fire in a mosque and killed six people but injured seventeen. This is