Fictional resistance movements and groups
V for Vendetta used the image of Guy Fawkes for the leader of resistance to a fictional police state. This image is now used in the real world by groups such as Anonymous.[1]
Fictional resistance movements and groups commonly appear in dystopian fiction, opposing the tyranny which dominates the setting.
In Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, the tyranny is the soul-destroying life of modern western society. The protagonist rebels against this by organising atavistic bare-knuckle fights and then by leading Project Mayhem to destroy civilization. This story developed themes of alienation and anti-consumerism seen in earlier works such as Rebel without a Cause and The Prisoner with the epic, millennial quality of other contemporary works such as The Matrix.[2]
List of fictional resistance movements and groups
- Blake's 7 — eponymous rebels against the Terran Federation.
- The Brotherhood — the subversive opposition to The Party in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.
- Maquis — resistance to the Cardassians in Star Trek.
- The Mephi - the underground rebels getting ready to revolt against OneState in We (novel) by Evgeny Zamyatin.
- Rebel Alliance — the senators who wish to depose the Emperor and restore the Republic in Star Wars.
- Robin Hood — mythical leader of an English band of outlaws opposed to the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- Song Jiang — leader of outlaws during the Song Dynasty and fictionalised in the Water Margin
See also
- Fictional secret societies
- Terrorism in fiction
References
- ↑ Emily McAvan (2012), The Postmodern Sacred: Popular Culture Spirituality in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy Genres, p. 163, ISBN 9780786492824,
as with the use of the iconic Guy Fawkes mask from the Wachowskis' V For Vendetta as a symbol of anonymous resistance at protests
- ↑ John M. Stoup, Glenn W. Shuck (2007), "God's Unwanted: Fight Club and the Myth of "Total Revolution"", Escape Into the Future: Cultural Pessimism and Its Religious Dimension in Contemporary American Popular Culture, Baylor University Press
Further reading
- Junius P. Rodriguez (2007), Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 9780313332722
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