Week 6 Post

The fluidity of truth in postmodernism has to do with the fact that there is more than one way to view truth. There is not one ultimate truth arrived upon in a medanarrative way anymore. Our culture has become a mix of various stories, and we do not see the world as one great story that encapsulates everything--all of truth. V for Vendetta does this in the fact that there are various stories occurring within the same story. One key part of V for Vendetta is Evey's story. It is separate, in many ways, from V's vendetta against the government and yet her story and her fear feed into the ultimate story of truth--the truth that the government is corrupt and that the people need hope, a hope apart from obedience to the government. During part of the film Evey is made to believe that she is being tortured and imprisoned by the government and then, once she has conquered her fear and is let go from the prison she realizes that she was simply in a room in V's chambers all along--she was never in any "real danger." V reminds Evey of how she used to derive truth from her father's stories... how truth can be found in make believe, pretend, or fantasy. She then comes to see how the fact that she has conquered her fear is in fact real despite the unreal circumstances that caused her to come to that victory. As a Christian, I believe God uses stories to tell us, to teach us truths. Jesus continually used parallels to tell the disciples about the Kingdom of Heaven. We can arrive on a truth--even an absolute truth through various stories (no matter how real they are) within the ultimate story of reality.