hey, can i ask you something? you're the most british person i know, wanna ask you about guy fawkes and the gunfire plot - i read the wikipedia parts on that, and i have an impression i still don't quite get it. is he percieved as a positive or negative character in your country? there were these couple of sentences that rendered me clueless as to this one. i know what they wanted to do and more-less why. not quite sure about that anon that was sent to that lord m..smt either, the one that informed him to stay away from the parliment cause it'll blow up and why the heck did they proceed knowing such anon was sent (or didnt they?). but in general the current image is pretty distorted, he's been rendered to an icon of rebels, and perhaps just a tad less commercialised than gue vara but who knows. the internet anonymous are using his mask often -.- (fawkses, that is) anyway if you feel like devoting a while straightening this one for me, how is he percieved in your society now (and possibly back then too, if you have any knowledge on that), i'd be grateful. hate to know just half of the story.
Um, I can't really talk about how he was perceived back then, but from what I vaguely remember learning is that the government basically propagandised the whole event, turning Fawkes' execution into something that would be remembered (I think, in part, to attempt to quell sympathy for their actions). As for currently, no-one really cares about what they did and why. You learn about it in like... primary school, or something? But with regards to the actual celebration, it's mostly seen as an excuse to have fireworks, have a bonfire, eat jacket potatoes and, if you're an adult, get drunk. The political side to it is more or less forgotten, and in schools and stuff, you generally work together to build a Guy Fawkes that is burnt over a bonfire (most primary schools host one, I think).
The politics totally don't come into it, and no-one really cares about that side of it /laugh.
hahahaha i see xDD well there's this v for vendetta movie right, so i kinda thought its more political, but apparently was wrong :) thanks for the comment lol, i guess it's just the same as valentines or saint patricks then, just commercialised and the original idea is long gone.
you're the most british person i know, wanna ask you about guy fawkes and the gunfire plot - i read the wikipedia parts on that, and i have an impression i still don't quite get it. is he percieved as a positive or negative character in your country? there were these couple of sentences that rendered me clueless as to this one. i know what they wanted to do and more-less why. not quite sure about that anon that was sent to that lord m..smt either, the one that informed him to stay away from the parliment cause it'll blow up and why the heck did they proceed knowing such anon was sent (or didnt they?).
but in general the current image is pretty distorted, he's been rendered to an icon of rebels, and perhaps just a tad less commercialised than gue vara but who knows. the internet anonymous are using his mask often -.- (fawkses, that is)
anyway if you feel like devoting a while straightening this one for me, how is he percieved in your society now (and possibly back then too, if you have any knowledge on that), i'd be grateful. hate to know just half of the story.
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The politics totally don't come into it, and no-one really cares about that side of it /laugh.
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well there's this v for vendetta movie right, so i kinda thought its more political, but apparently was wrong :)
thanks for the comment lol, i guess it's just the same as valentines or saint patricks then, just commercialised and the original idea is long gone.
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