Comprensione – Bonfire Night & Guy Fawkes

Hai mai sentito parlare della Bonfire Night? O di Guy Fawkes Night? Sicuramente avrai sentito però qualcosa del film/fumetto “V for Vendetta”! Ecco, continua a leggere per scoprire le origini!

Testo

Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Fireworks Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605, when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. Celebrating the fact that King James I had survived the attempt on his life, people lit bonfires around London, and months later the date was declared annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot’s failure. At present bonfires are lit in Britain every 5th of November to commemorate the plot.

Vocabolario

known as = conosciuto/noto come

bonfire = falò

firework = fuochi d’artificio

gunpowder = polvere da sparo

plot = piano (segreto), complotto 

plotter = cospiratore, congiurato

beneath = sotto, al di sotto

House of Lords = Camera dei Lord

lit = Simple Past del verbo to light = illuminare, accendere.

thanksgiving = l’atto di ringraziare

failure = fallimento, insuccesso

at present = al momento

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