Literary Techniques In Vertigo's V For Vendetta

The effectiveness of graphic novels surpasses that of written narratives due to the added illustration, easily followed dialogue, foreign dialect, and its thought-provoking story line. Although graphic novels are frequently considered a form of pleasure reading, they are “slowly escaping the stereotype that they are picture books with no value to literacy instruction” (Watts). V for Vendetta managed to preserve the significance of a written narrative in addition to maintaining a fascinating story line.
Day after day people read narratives, sometimes not even knowing what is going on. With the confusion from being lost in the book, the reader than becomes uninterested. Graphic novels on the other hand, have the opposite effect, they actually grasp the attention of the reader making it enjoyable. Not by just showing elementary grade pictures, but actual detailed art that is
In V for Vendetta there were plenty of instances where the characters would use verbiage that was typically used in London during the late 1900’s. Unlike their more traditional text-only counterparts, contemporary graphic novels trend towards diverse voices and stories (Watts).Vertigo uses verbiage like “D’y no feel like celebratin or wha?” meaning “do you not feel like celebrating or what?”. This could normally be mistranslated in an average written narrative but in V for Vendetta the illustration shows the guys in the scene hanging out together. Between a blender of bold, italic words mixed in the sentences along with the facial expressions of the characters a great emotion is heard silently and felt vividly. This makes the writing intriguing, intuitive and witty just by not using an obvious exclamation point. In addition to the distinct dialect, Vertigo stresses the phrase “a picture is worth one thousand words” to carry the details of the