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If the question is in the present tense and looks beyond the fact that people enjoy fireworks and a bonfire I’d answer neither. It’s actually not about Guy Faw
by klelatti 5y ago
If the question is in the present tense and looks beyond the fact that people enjoy fireworks and a bonfire I’d answer neither.
It’s actually not about Guy Fawkes at all - it’s that an attempt to destroy Parliament was defeated.
By which I mean that it would have died out a long time ago if it were not for the symbolism that Parliament was successfully protected.
- chasil 5y agoI think that the United Kingdom would have been a very different place had this come to pass. "Guy Fawkes’ Night, the ‘Fifth of November’, has been popular and long-lived for two different reasons. The first is the spectacular nature of the event that it commemorated. Had the Gunpowder Plot succeeded, it would have killed the majority of the English political nation of the time, including most of the royal family, aristocracy and leading gentry and many merchants, as well as demolishing Westminster Palace and much of the Abbey and surrounding houses. It was intended not just to overthrow the existing monarch and central and local government, but the Church of England, as established since the Reformation, and the Protestant faith dominant in England. In its place the plotters planned to restore the Roman Catholic religion and enthrone a puppet princess."