Malachai

Lately in V for Vendetta, V has been doing some peculiar things. For example, he impersonated the government and reinacted the conditions at his old concentration camp. This charade he used when he abducted Evey and tortured her. He tested her in brutal ways and tried to make her sign a false confession. The consequences if she didn’t were death. She refused to sign it. Upon this, V revealed his charade. He justified it as right because he had shown Evey what freedom truly was. 

Another interesting part was the song written right before the second half of the book. V is the singer, and the song itself outlines the rest of the book.

(This is kinda long, but good nonetheless)

THIS VICIOUS CABARET:

They say that there’s a broken light for every heart on broadway.

They say that life’s a game and then they take the board away.

They give you masks and costumes and an outline of the story,

Then leave you all to improvise their vicious cabaret.

In no longer pretty cities there are fingers in the kitties, there are warrants forms and chitties and a jackboot on the stair,

There’s sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime, and at least the trains all run on time but they don’t go anywhere.

Facing their responsibilities either on their backs or on their knees, there are ladies who just simply freeze and dare not turn away,

And the widows who refuse to cry will be dressing in garter and bow-tie and be taught to kick their legs up high in this vicious cabaret.

At last the 1998 show! The ballet on the burning stage! The documentary seen upon the fractured screen,

The dreadful poem scrawled upon the crumpled page!

There’s a policeman with an honest soul that has seen whose head is on the pole and he grunts and fills his briar bowl with a feeling of unease.

Then he briskly frisks the torn remains for a fingerprint or crimson stains and endeavors to ignore the chains that he walks in to his knees,

While his master in the dark nearby inspects the hands with brutal eye that have never brushed a lover’s thigh but have squeezed a nation’s throat,

And he hungers in his secret dreams for the harsh embrace of cruel machines. But his lover is not what she seems and she will not leave a note.

At last the 1998 show! The situation tragedy! Grand opera slick with soap! Cliff-hangers with no hope!

The water-color in the flooded gallery.

There’s a girl who’ll push but will not shove and she’s desperate for her father’s love. She believes the hand beneath the glove may be one she needs to hold.

Though she doubts her host’s moralities she decides that she is more at ease in the land of doing as-you-please than outside in the cold.

But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast get eaten by the play. There’s a murderer at the matinee there are dead men in the aisles.

 And the patrons and the actors too are uncertain if the show is through, and with sidelong looks await their cue,

But the frozen mask just smiles.

At last the 1998 show! The torch song no-one ever sings! The curfew chorus line! The comedy divine!

The bulging eyes of puppets strangled by their strings!

There’s thrills and chills and girls galore. There’s sing-songs and surprises! There’s something here for everyone, reserve your seat today!

There’s mischiefs and malarkeys,

but no queers,

or yids,

or darkies,

within this bastard’s carnival

THIS VICIOUS CABARET!!

This song seems to adress everything that is happening in the book. In the beggining of the song, V sings about how horrible life has become for the people of London. The song adresses how the people of this nation have lost their freedom. The song compares life under a facist goverment as a vicious cabaret, or a grim play. V tells of all the people who ignore their oppression. These people are the one’s in the play. In the song, the actors are eaten by the play. In other words, the charade is exposed by a murderer. I think V is referring to himself in this instance. I think the object of this song is to tell how V wishes to be the one that will free the people from the government, by showing the people what freedom truly is. Also, it shows how he vents his anger on the government. “There’s mischiefs and malarkey’s, but no queers, or yids, or darkies, within this bastard’s carnival, this vicious cabaret.”- This tells how the government rid the nation of all minorities. A horrible thing to do, and now, codename V is venting his anger on the government. And it is incredible to see.