What caused the Gunpowder Treason?

V for Vendetta sets the Gunpowder Plot as V's historical inspiration, contributing to his choice of timing, language and appearance. For example, the names Rokewood, Percy and Keyes are used in the film, which are also the names of three of the Gunpowder conspirators. The film creates parallels to Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, by drawing direct comparisons between V and Edmond Dantès. V's use of the Guy Fawkes mask and persona functions as both practical and symbolic elements of the story. He wears the mask to hide his physical scars, and in obscuring his identity -- he becomes the idea itself. But why did he choose the gunpowder treason as an example? The video summarises briefly the accounts written by the author Alice Hogge's 'God's Secret Agents: Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot'. Read in detail the events and stories that subsequently resulted to the plot, and how it mirrors today's unenviable debates of the relation between politics, religion and terrorism.

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[taongimba]

hahahaha.... yeah.

[BalladoftheWindfish]

I will probably have to watch this more than once to really understand it.

[Ashitaka255]

An American saying Canterbury is really annoying.

[Scullibundo]

Remember, Remember, the 18th of December.