Research Paper On Monty Python And The Holy Grail

Monty Python Monty Python and the Holy Grail is considered to be a cult classic. Piercing its way into the mainstream through several memorable lines. It satires the medieval times by making fun of knights, witches, and the 100 year war. The movie is not always accurate with the historical events that it depicts. Does the holy grail correctly depict what living in the black plague would be like or how someone would be found to be a witch a witch, and how does it use exaggeration and parody to achieve its humor. Witch hunts were rampant in Europe in the 1500’s, and people would use many methods to prove that someone was a witch. If someone had witch like features like: a squeaky voice, long nose, squinty eyes, a very wrinkly face, or a mole they were suspect of being a witch. Monty Python shows this with the “Witch Scene” an angry mob brings a

It devastated Europe, “Over five years, the mysterious Black Death would kill more than 20 million people in Europe–almost one-third of the continent’s population” (History.com). Monty Python makes fun of the tragedy because of how now in society it is unimaginable bringing your dead to a cart on the street when someone dies. A man brings an old man to the cart saying that he is dead when he is clearly alive. The man hits the old man on the head and put him on the cart.This was an actual job people did actually come with carts to collect the dead, “Each night brave souls would walk the streets with a cart, collecting the bodies of the dead. Many people, once they had passed, were thrown into open communal pits, the bodies burnt in mass graves”(History.com). This was a very dangerous job, but necessary to help stop the spread of the disease. They added the old man to break the verisimilitude and add parody to the skit.. The black plague may have haunted medieval Europe, but can now be laughed