Bubonic Plague In The Film, Black Death

The bubonic plague was an important historical event that changed the history was viewed in killing. From enforcing laws on workers and unsanitary conditions to Hollywood producing series of films to reenactment, both were pointed to one thing; the bubonic plague was a series killer. The movie “Black Death” shows dramatic scenery that vividly displays an image into the viewer’s eye on what the life was like during the mid-thirteen hundreds. The movie, researches, and accounts on this event shows similarities and differences in giving the information during those harsh times. The movie took place around the same time during the first wave of bubonic plague. A group of warriors has endorsed at an monastery where a young monk, Osmund gallantly volunteers to help the soldiers carry out the task, which was to oust the village being slowly being killed off by the plague . The movie also used imagery to describe the scenery during those times. But however, they consistently fail to mention the occupational protection as well as church’s reaction about the ‘witch’ or necromancer; which was the ideas of the pestilence . Although the movie failed to recognize some of the importance, the movie proved not to be accurate as I …show more content…
The plague at the time was known as the pestilence, as many people, including royal servants were bludgeoned to their bloody demise from the result of ‘pestilence.’ The comparison of the movie did not show royalty, but often typical citizens who were basically defenseless from the basic necessity from higher social classes in feudalism. They often are killed by description of a worm that produced scent that smelt unbearable. The both documentation showed that pestilence was a true devastator, which put approximately twenty-five million Europeans to the bloody deaths. The disease has a notorious name, and proved to contain notorious reputation to be a serious