Tonight, you must choose what comes next. Tomorrow, Downing Street will be destroyed, the head reduced to ruins, an end to what has gone before.
They say anarchy’s dead, but see…reports of my death were…exaggerated. With anarchy, from rubble comes new life, hope reinstated. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse. You can call me “V.” Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. I would introduce myself, but truth to tell, I do not have a name. In the final issue, Evey has assumed the role of V, and addresses the citizens of an England, whose world has been flipped upside down due to the acts of terrorism carried out by V in the name of anarchy:ĮVEY AS THE NEW V: Good evening, London. It’s actually a huge theme that’s been in Moore’s work prior to Promethea, notably at the end of V for Vendetta:
I think you’re right that the “personal agency” concept is central aspect of Moore’s views on anarchy. That sense of personal agency that everyone can and should exercise feels like a big part of it for me.
