Fictional resistance movements and groups

Fictional resistance movements and groups commonly appear in dystopian fiction, opposing tyranny.

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]

Literature

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.[2]

List of fictional resistance movements

See also

  • Fictional secret societies
  • Terrorism in fiction

References

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. TwistedGears (6 July 2014). "Chaos Insurgency Hub". SCP Foundation Wiki. Retrieved 28 October 2021.

Further reading

  • Junius P. Rodriguez (2007), Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 9780313332722
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