Remember, Remember...

… the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes (or Guido Fawkes), was born in York on 13 April, 1570, and was hung for treason on 31 January, 1606.

Portrait of Guy Fawkes by Anonymous

Fawkes is known for his involvement in a scheme to assassinate King James I by blowing up the Westminster Palace (Houses of Parliament) in London, on the 5 November. He was caught in the cellar with barrels of gunpowder before he managed to set them in place. Guy Fawkes was tortured until he signed a written confession.

Imagine how the world would have been if the plot took place. Alas,

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot

Alan Moore, a comic book writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, musician, artist, magician, created a Fawkes-like character called ‘V’ in his comic ‘V For Vendetta’. V is an anarchist, anti-fascist-government, and pro-power-to-the-people who wears a Guy Fawkes mask. He plots to blow up the Houses of Parliament, just like Fawks, but sometime in a future 5 November.
The comic is adapted into a film directed by James McTeigue. The release of the film was supposed to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Fawkes’ gunpowder plot. It was released instead in March, 2006, for reasons traced back to the July London bombings.

Alan Moore

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