Within poststructuralist thought, and especially in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, “becoming-woman” signifies a departure from fixed identities and transcendent categories, emphasizing instead fluidity, multiplicity, and continual processes of transformation. This thesis examined the transformation of Evey Hammond, the central character, in Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta (1982–1985) through the lens of Deleuze and Guattari’s poststructuralist thought. While existing scholarship has emphasized the text’s political allegory, anarchist themes, or critique of authoritarianism, few studies have systematically applied a Deleuzeoguattarian framework to this graphic novel. This research addressed that gap by analyzing Evey’s trajectory as a process of becoming-woman, a concept central to Deleuze and Guattari’s thought, defined as a process of resisting fixed identities that affirms subjectivity as dynamic, relational, and perpetually in flux. The study traced Evey’s development across several stages: her initial subjection within the Norsefire regime, her imprisonment and encounter with Valerie’s testimony, her confrontation with V, and her final act of assuming his mantle. Through these moments, it was shown how her identity is deterritorialized and reorganized on the plane of immanence, illustrating a shift from molar structures of victimhood toward molecular processes of becoming. Additional Deleuzeoguattarian concepts such as assemblage, the war machine, minor literature, and the body without organs were also employed to reveal how this graphic novel dramatizes resistance not as transcendent heroism but as immanent, collective transformation. By foregrounding Evey’s becoming-woman, this study offered a new perspective on V for Vendetta and highlighted the capacity of Deleuzeoguattarian philosophy to deepen analyses of character, identity, and resistance in the genre of the graphic novel. The study, thus, contributed to scholarship on Moore and Lloyd’s work while affirming the relevance of Deleuze and Guattari’s thought for literary and cultural studies.
