Argumentative Essay

PROJECT TEXT-V for Vendetta

Rhetoric of Text

Project Text asks that you interpret a major text through close reading and research. Our “text” is V for Vendetta. We’ll approach this text through a number of critical sources, classroom discussions and activities, documentaries, and individual student essays.

Project Text Requirements

ESSAY II

Essay 2-Rhetoric of Text (@4-6 Pages)

For this essay, you are required to use V for Vendetta and our supplementary texts as idea generators for argumentative topics.

What does this mean? In particular, you should find a theme from within the text and write an essay that argues something about the theme and it uses V for Vendetta as evidence of this theme.

When mining V for Vendetta for themes to explore, there are many topics to consider, including:

· The Internet and Censorship

· Privacy

· Piracy/The Pirates Bay

· Controlling Information Through Controlling the Internet

· Government Control/ Police States

· The Anonymous Movement

· The Removal of Civil Liberties

· Freedom of Information

Manuscript Notes: This essay should be four to six double-spaced pages and calls for MLA documentation ; you must include a “Works Cited” list at the end of your essay. When you quote key phrases or clauses from your written text(s), you must provide parenthetical documentation.