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The Influence Of The Gunpowder Plot In English History

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The Gunpowder plot of 1605 was influential in English history because it influenced Shakespeare to make Macbeth, and Macbeth was influenced by the gunpowder plot of 1605. The Gunpowder plot was designed to kill King James I in 1605, and Macbeth was written in 1606 (History). Even though the conspirators and Macbeth are similar in the idea of killing a king for their own personal gain, the conspirators in the Gunpowder plot of 1605 failed in killing King James I, but Macbeth succeed in killing King Duncan.
Macbeth wanted to kill King Duncan because of his ambition to become the king of Scotland. Guy Fawkes, Catesby, Wintour, and other catholic conspirators who wanted to kill King James I because of the dispute between Catholic and British Protestants.
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