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    Masked Identity

    V For Vendetta illustrates a super hero who uses a simple mask to hide his face, but V also uses his mask to explain his true identity. The Guy Fawkes mask and the V symbol shown in the film explain everything it is that V represents. Guy Fawkes was a part of a group of catholic men who tried to assassinate King James I, and destroy parliament in the year 1605. These men wished to restore the Catholic religion in England.   Though Guy Fawkes was considered a terrorist and hung by the neck, he chose to stand against the government for what he knew to be right. V wears the mask of Guy Fawkes with the intentions to do what that group of men failed to do, and he begins a revolution giving the people of England the power to overthrow an oppressing government.