Guy Fawkes French Revolution

The initial impulse of the French revolution was destructive. For those who lived through all, or even part, of these vast upheavals, the shock was overwhelming. Maximilien Robespierre was a proud disciple of the enlightenment and declared that no political writer had foreseen this revolution. Robespierre (1758-1794) was one of the leaders of the Committee of Public Safety, the effective governing body of France during the most radical phase of the revolution. The leaders of this revolution attempted, perhaps more than any other revolutionary leaders before or since, to totally transform human society in every way. (Supreme Being) Although Robespierre began with patriotic intent he still was the face of the Reign of Terror and was viewed as being a radical person.

Guy Fawkes was born in York on the 13 April 1570. A protestant by birth, he became a Roman Catholic after the marriage of his widowed mother to a man of Catholic background. In 1593 he enlisted in the Spanish Army in Flanders and in 1596 participated in the capture of the city of Calais by the Spanish in their war with Henry IV of France. He became implicated with Thomas Winter and Robert Catesby and others in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament, as a protest against the anti-Roman Catholic laws and was known to be Britain’s greatest conspirators. We celebrate every 5th of November by throwing a doll replica of Guy Fawkes onto the bonfire to commemorate his failure to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But did he actually attempt to

One of them is that he ordered his army to slaughter every Catholic in Drogheda, Ireland. He heard that the Catholics were torturing the Protestants and decided to kill all the Catholics. No one was actually certain about what was going on in Ireland but Oliver Cromwell believed the Protestants. Another reason why he was viewed to be a villain was because after fighting with Parliament against the King, he closed the Parliament down himself which made him as bad as the king.

Just about any country that one can name has some history of civil unrest, class issues, rioting in the streets, and outright warfare. These patterns of behavior are common denominators for most civilization in the world. The names, faces, and places may change, but the motivations are generally the same, because of the need for change and the willingness to do whatever is necessary to achieve it. In contrast to the United States, which was in the process of freeing itself from British colonial rule, France was working to free itself from royal absolutism. This period is historically known as the French Revolution. Many scholars do not agree on the chronology of the French Revolution; some scholars suggest that the Revolution took place between 1789 to 1799 while others feel that it did not end until Napoleon lost power in 1815. To better understand the history of the French Revolution it is necessary to discuss the causes, major events, significant figures, and the outcomes associated with these political developments. Without this uprising, that changed the face of the entire country and influenced local political life in many countries in Europe, in all likelihood the France we know today would never have existed.

You may know this affair as ¨The Bloody Massacre¨, The Boston Massacre, ¨the incident on King street¨, but do you know the true story. In this tractate youĺl find why this event even happened, the scene itself, how Paul revere's engraving was actually a propaganda, and the aftermath of all this!

The topic that I will be writing about is the French Revolution and how it affected France as a nation. The book that I read was "The French Revolution, A tale of Terror and Hope for Our Times", by Harold Behr. This book gave a very large and broad overview of what transpired during the French Revolution, which occurred during the years of 1789-1799. Though the book covered a lot of material that happened throughout those years, I will be covering the main topics, such as what were the events leading up to the revolution, how the revolution affected the people of France, how the revolution affected the country as a whole, how the revolution affected the world, and whether or not the revolution in the end helped or was more detrimental to the country. All of the topics will be covered from my point of view and how I interpreted the author, there is another point of views on the revolution but this will be from what I felt the book meant to me.

Throughout History the Age of Enlightenment refers to the age of where people brought up new ideas, and thinking. In that period of time, they was philosopher, politician and intellectual. So people adapting to the idea lead up to the French revolution. During the Enlightenment they was a reinforcement on the political conflict between the monarchy and the nobility. The nobility are the people who belonged to the noble family, and the monarchy are people in the throne (King and Queen). Therefore the conflict between the head of the monarch and the nobility was about taxation. The French government was in a deep debt after fighting a war with the American, their king Louis the XVI forced the noble and the clergy to pay tax in order for them to pay their dept. As a result the nobility revolted. During the French revolution political, social and economic conflict is the events leading up to overthrow the king Louis the XVI and Marie-Antoinette which mark the reign of terror. First of all I will talk about the French revolution political, social and economic cause, then I will talk about the role of the Enlightenment then finally I will talk about the reign of terror how everything how everything ended.

Thousands gathered and a sign was put on the effigy of Andrew Oliver that declared whoever takes this down is an enemy to his country. The angry crowd paraded the effigy through the streets of Boston motivating supporters of the patriot cause throughout the city. Mob rule was the order of the day and the effigy was beheaded and burned in

In 1605, a group of young and angry Catholics decided that they had enough of King James I, and decided to take over the kingdom of England. They planned to destroy the Protestant government by murdering the most important men in the kingdom. Many people since think that the Gunpowder Plot was a conspiracy theory to make the Catholics even more unpopular in society. Others think that the traditional story that they had been taught for generations was true. In order to find out we have to consider the actions that make the Gunpowder Plot look like a conspiracy theory and the traditional story.

Now, looking back at the Gunpowder Plot it can be stated that it fits the definition on each point that Symeonidou-Kastanidou (2004) brings about. They were a group of thirteen skilled man, who planned an attack on parliament. Attack was planned over the certain period of time, they had finance and equipment (thirty-six barrels of gunpowder, fuse and a fire) to carry out an attack. Equipped with religious grievances and the intention to kill the King and members of the parliament (symbolic place, that is where all the mischief happened according to Catesby). Death of the king would have had brought change of the regime from the Protestant rule to the Catholic reign or created social dissatisfaction and condemnation (Fraser, 1996). Schmid (1992 cited in Lutz and Lutz, 2013) states that for an assassination to be an act of terrorism, it must involve not only an assassin and its victim but also a wider society, that in case of the

James VI ruled Scotland from 24 July 1567 until his death and he ruled in England and Ireland from March 24, 1603 until his death. His reign was important because it was the first time ever in England and in Scotland had the same king in other words. At 57 yrs old, James's reign in Scotland was longer than those of any of the ex kings. He achieved most of his goals per se in Scotland but faced great challenges in England, including the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and repeated conflicts with the English Parliament. One problem the King ran into was the “Gunpowder Plot” was also called the “Gunpowder Treason Plot” which was a failed attempt to blow up King James in England and the Parliament. The Parliament is a highest legislature, but only in the

Their festivities exhibited a blatant, vitriolic anti-Catholic bias (Fawkes and his group had been Catholics trying to topple a Protestant government). Each year the respective gangs, dressed in masks, costumes, tricorns and pointed grenadier hats, would parade an effigy of the pope and one of the Devil, “clad in tar and feathers” on a large platform, which was carried by a crowd on a large platform surrounded by burning firecrackers. Small boys concealed below the platforms worked strings attached to the figures, which would “elevate and move around at proper intervals the movable head” as they were carried toward Boston Common. Some gang-members would blow horns and conch-shells known as “Pope-horns.” Every house along the route was required to contribute money “to the expense of the show”. If they did not, windows would be broken, or the house otherwise damaged. The procession would continue through the Common, past the state house, and would typically end on Cornhill or Copp’s Hill, where the effigies were consumed in giant bonfires—and the two mighty clans would engage in a violent contest of strength and arms” (Ben Miller, 1). “In 1745, a newspaper described one of these events: “Tuesday last being the Anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, two Popes were made and carried tho’ the Streets in the evening , one from the

This essay will discuss the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 when a group of catholic noblemen plotted to blow up the English House of Parliament; the target of the plot was King James VI of Scotland and I of England. This essay will focus on how the event impacted Catholics and their treatment in society and law after the event. Primary sources including letters, Parliamentary documents and their insight into how the event impacted Catholics in the years after the event will be used to provide evidence and Secondary sources to provide different historians views on the treatment of Catholics.

Of the many symbolic masks, the Guy Fawkes mask stands out as one of the most effective, often being used as a “masked identity” in order to make profound statements. Not only does this secret identity create more attention to the “masked one” but it also diverts attention to the cause rather than the identity. Literally using a mask, Fawkes was the main influence of the character “V”, in James McTeigue’s, V For Vendetta. V’s connections and motivations to Guy Fawkes, his attempt to justify himself as a terrorist, and V’s concealment of his true identity, collectively define the message that V conveys to his audience: to break parliament and take control of their own country.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité was the cry of freedom that countless people used to propel them through, and to the end of the French Revolution. This long period of social, political and economic change in France lasted 10 years, starting in 1798 and ended with Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution greatly affected all of Europe at the time and continues to represent the embodiment of revolution to this day. This constant struggle between the heavily taxed, burdened, and unrepresented third estate and those higher created an environment of monumental change for everyone. In the years leading up to the French Revolution, new beliefs and ideas were reaching every corner of Europe creating the thought that men should live free of oppression. However, in France the leader Louis XVI lead like a tyrant leaving the people impoverish and angry. Through the analysation of numerous circumstance present during the Ancien Régime, such as an inferior fiscal leadership, massive debt, and the forthcoming of new ideas during the Enlightened period, it can be concluded that the means for this revolution were justified as it is in our essence to revolt for a change.