Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth

His faith is bent to breaking point when he is torn between religious freedom and the chaste maiden, Viviana. While following in the footsteps of his past, Fawkes’s story becomes one of a battle for religious freedom, fought against a background of dire prophecy and prognostications from departed saints. A bemused Fawkes urges Ainsworth to explain himself, desperate for its origins and asking who he really is? Ainsworth begins to tell him the story of Guido Fawkes, reliving the pages first told and expressed in his infamous novel. After scaring off the gang, Ainsworth mystically brings the effigy to life, making the straw-stuffed figure of Guy Fawkes appear before him. Unbeknownst to them, they stop outside the house of the old writer, William Harrison Ainsworth famed author of 'Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason'. REMEMBER, REMEMBER.Ī cobbled street on 5 November in Victorian England, a gang of ragged children carry a battered effigy of Guy Fawkes in celebration of Bonfire Night. The famed Gunpowder Plot held many secrets, a tale captured and embellished by a Victorian novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth, where Guido (Guy) Fawkes became the doomed hero of a best-selling novel, now long forgotten, yet full of magic, romance and the supernatural. Guy Fawkes the heretic the revolutionary the anarchist. Ever since the failure of that night, the Guy Fawkes story has invoked a varied response from subsequent generations. Guy Fawkes cements himself in history after failing to detonate 2,500 kilograms of gunpowder, intentionally hidden beneath the House of Lords at the heart of the British parliament.

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Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth