1.	Introduction

2.	Methodology

3.	Merciful Terrorists

4.	Guy Fawkes in Literature and Art

5.	Conclusion

"Guy Fawkes. Who really was this g(G)uy? The previous sentence sounds indeed deafeningly thundering enough to fulfill the role of seminar paper’s thesis. However I personally would not raise my hand for this choice. Actually Guy Fawkes “real and uncensored” story can not satisfy anything of human intellectual needs but lust for enjoying bizarre and absurdly cruel tales. Therefore our work stands against difficult odds. How to justify its own subject, if that was discredited a line before? This challenge is easy to accept for everyone who remains thinking clearly even under the pressure of evident menace. Cold-blooded point of view allows us to remind to use classical and fundamental aphorism of philosophers: “Good question is worthier than many answers, be they bad or good.” What question had we picked then?

What ideological purpouses, political mechanisms and psychological forces could grant the commemoration of humble man’s execution lasting impetus and attractiveness
that - in the folk’s memory - eventually overshadowed even the event of uniting two rival kingdoms under one royal dynasty?

We are going to examine the moods in all levels of society, which created a myth full of xenophobia and bitter hatred towards significant religious minority. We are going to track this crude custom being transformed into innocent popular entertainment. Moreover we are going to learn about the means through which a medieval torture and bestial execution may turn into a rich source of inspiration for artists.

METHODOLOGY

Firstly we have to explain the methodology chosen for our work. In our times of so called post-modernity the appropriate approach towards our pre-assumptions almost overshadows any other aspects of the scientific paper. Philosophy of language and epistemological consensus of perspectivism were founding stones of multicultural discourse in historical sciences. The rapidly increasing numbers of professionally trained historians were logical consequence of the 20th century educational and demographical processes. The political liberation and emancipation of women, black people, sexual and other minorities during the 20th century owed a lot to their national predecessors of late 18th and 19th centuries.

Those bloody revolutions draw their energy upon two seemingly contradictory yet in praxis efficiently cooperating ideological sources. One was rational program of individual rights and inevitable civilizing progress as introduced by Enlightenment movement of the 18th century exemplified notably by American and French revolutions with remarkable precedent in The Glorious Revolution of 1688. The other thought stream fueling the impetus of revolutionaries in the century of steam originates in the intellectual reaction opposing the austere and cold logic of Enlightenment. "