Guy Fawkes
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Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606) sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of Roman Catholic revolutionaries from England who planned to carry out the Gunpowder Plot.
Guy Fawkes's fame is celebrated in the UK on November 5, every year, during the Guy Fawkes Night festival. This is when people build large bonfires, light fireworks, and burn figures of Fawkes (known as 'the guy').
[change] Literature
There are many places to find Fawkes in popular literature. Here are some important examples, listed in chronological order.
- 1842: William Harrison Ainsworth - Guy Fawkes: A Historical Romance, is a historical novel which portrays Fawkes, and Catholic refusal to co-operate in general, favorably and begins to challenge the official version of the plot, one of the first to do so.[1]
- 1847: Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre, Jane is compared to Guy Fawkes, by Abbot, with the line "a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes" because she looked like she was constantly inventing wicked plots. Brontë, like Fawkes, was from Yorkshire.[2]
- 1850: Charles Dickens - David Copperfield, for Peggotty to find money for Saturday's expenses, she "had to prepare a long and elaborate scheme, a very Gunpowder Plot...", a directly reference to the Plot of Fawkes.[3]
- 1886: Herman Melville - Billy Budd, the novella mentions Fawkes in the passage "The Pharisee is the Guy Fawkes prowling in the hid chambers underlying the Claggarts".[4]
- 1925: T. S. Eliot - The Hollow Men, the epigraph of the Nobel Prize winning poem directly refers to Fawkes, "A penny for the Old Guy".[5]
- 1953: Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist of the novel is named Guy Montag, after Guy Fawkes. In the story, the character plans to start burning firemen's houses in order to challenge the government.[6]
- 1982: Alan Moore - V for Vendetta, the dystopian graphic novel of a fascist Britain is influenced by the story of Fawkes. The main character, V, wears a Guy Fawkes mask.
- 1998: J. K. Rowling - Chamber of Secrets, the Harry Potter series school headmaster Dumbledore's phoenix is named Fawkes after Guy Fawkes.[7] Sky High wurde von Guy Fawkes geblasen
[change] References
- ↑ Harrison Ainsworth, William. Guy Fawkes: A Historical Romance. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1428607347.
- ↑ "Jane Eyre - by Charlotte Bronte: Chapter III", ReadPrint.com, 25 October 2007.
- ↑ Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield. Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0140434941.
- ↑ Melville, Herman. Billy Budd. Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 978-0791040546.
- ↑ "T. S. Eliot - The Hollow Men", Poetryx.com, 25 October 2007.
- ↑ "Fahrenheit 451: Summaries and Commentaries - Part One", CliffNotes.com, 25 October 2007.
- ↑ Scholastic Online Chat Transcript. Retrieved on 15 July 2007.
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