GUY FAWKES ’

NIGHT

Exceptional and real celebration

Guy Fawkes’ Night on November 5th celebrates the attempt by Guy Fawkes to destroy the Houses of Parliament in 1605.

The Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster) viewed from across the River Thames

Guy Fawkes’ Night is also known as Bonfire Night. It’ s celebrated on 5 november since 1605. It was started in the United Kingdom.

Guy Fawkes’ Night also known as Bonfire Night

Festivities in Windsor Castle during Guy Fawkes’ Night.

Guy Fawkes was born on April 13, 1570 and died on January 31, 1606. He is also known as Guido Fawkes. Guy Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Guy was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.

Important and legendary figure – Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes

Guido Fawkes was the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries. He belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics. They planned to stop the  Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Why Guido Fawkes ?

On the night of 4 / 5 November, Fawkes was found with 36 barrels of gunpowder in the cellars of Parliament.

Subsequent investigation revealed (lasting two years), a conspiracy of a small group of English Catholics.

The plan was to detonate the load at the House of Lords at the opening of Parliament and kill the same nobility, bishops and members of the House of Commons.

Events during Guy Fawkes’ Night

The author of the plan was not in fact Fawkes, in the conspiracy took part Thomas Percy and Robert Catesby.  After 2 months of the process, assassins – a total of eight, were sentenced to death by hanging and quartered.

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A contemporary engraving of eight of the thirteen conspirators, by Crispijn van de Passe. Fawkes is third from the right.

Most people make their own ‘guy’ to burn out of old clothes

Tradition on this day are the fireworks and festivities

Traditions and customs during this

celebration

Children stand on the street and say ‘penny for the guy’

In Lewes, a town in East Sussex, the town decides on one ‘evil’ person to burn each year. They make a giant ’guy’ and walk through the streets with flaming torches

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In Britain, people traditionally consume on Guy Fawkes’ Night dishes such as:

• Black treacle (goods such as bonfire toffee and parkin - cake)

• Baked potatoes • Toffee apples• Potato pie with pickled

red cabbage • Black peas with vinegar

British Customs

Black treacle

Bonfire toffee

British Customs continued

Parkin - cake

Toffee apples

Baked potato

(More treacle or brown sugar gives parkin a dark colour)

Fireworks

A Guy Fawkes’ Night Firework Display A pyrotechnic fountain

Fireworks have been a traditional part of the celebration since 1677. Nowadays fireworks are known as pyrotechnics.

Bonfire Night on 5 November 2010

An effigy of Guy Fawkes, burnt on 5 November 2010 at Billericay in Essex Revellers in Lewes, 5 November 2010

Bonfire Night on 5 November 2010 continued

Spectators gather around a bonfire, on 5 November 2010

A fireworks display on 5 November 2010

‘Remember, remember the fifth of NovemberThe Gunpowder Treason and PlotI know of no reason,Why Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot... ‘

In the movie V for Vendetta, V, said a short poem:

Longman Egzamin Gimnazjalny z języka angielskiego, podręcznik i repetytorium z testami, Rod Fricker/ Jerzy Gaszewski , Tomasz Siuta/ Marta Umińska, Konsultacja Barbara Czarnecka-Cicha/ Anna Badetko

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http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001590

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The presentation was made byPaulina Janus

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