Who is Guy Fawkes, and what is his relation to V for Vendetta?
Well, before you can understand his relation to the book, you need to understand why Guy is so (in)famous to begin with. The short answer is this: Guy (alias Guido) Fawkes was one of the members of The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 in which a group of Catholics attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill James I, the King of England, to protest Protestant rule. As the man chosen to light the fuse and the first captured, Guy has recieved the lion’s share of attention among the conspirators. The long of it is as follows: Since Henry the VIII’s reign, England was divided between Catholics and Protestants with the factions fighting bitterly over control of the throne. Queen Elizabeth I had been staunchly Protestant, but with her death and the succession of James I as King, Catholics had thought their persecution was at and end. They were wrong. Shortly after James’ coronation in 1603, it became clear he had no intention of granting leniency to the Catholics. Guy himself was born in Eng
