Stockholm Syndrome Portrayal in V for Vendetta (2006) Film

This thesis explores Evey Hammond who has personality change that is caused bydeveloping a rare psychological phenomenon known as Stockholm Syndromeduring her time being held as hostage. This research is done by using qualitativemethod and narrative-descriptive analysis technique to analyse the character. Thetheory of Stockholm Syndrome by Dee L. R. Graham is applied to identify theconditions that commonly appears to the victim of the syndrome. The majorindicator by Graham is used as a guide to analyse, understand, and explain thephenomenon. Based on the analysis using the theory of Character andCharacterization by Petrie W. Dennis and Joseph M. Boggs, Evey appears to be adynamic character who has her personality changes throughout the film. Thecharacterization of the personality is depicted through the dialogue, external, andinternal actions. This paper found that Evey is experiencing three out of fourconditions of Stockholm Syndrome. The conditions are perceive threat to survival,perceive kindness, and isolation. Furthermore, Evey is also showing six out of ninemajor indicators of Stockholm Syndrome: shows symptoms of trauma, formsreciprocated bond, feel grateful for kindness, rationalize threat and/or violence,associate self to captor, and feel hard to leave captor. These findings lead to aconclusion that Evey Hammond experiences the Stockholm Syndromevii, 48 hlm, ilusi; 25 c