Satire In The Holy Grail And The Monty Python

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The movie “The Holy Grail and The Monty Python” Uses lots of satire of many beliefs of the middle ages. There are many different aspects that the movie uses to make fun of the ideals and literature that comes from this time period. They make fun of a few things directly and a few things not so directly. The things that they make fun of directly is the black plague and science and magic. They make fun of the black plague by showing that the people of the kingdom are playing and living in the filth and feces. When the cart of dead rolls by a man brings his older ancestor that was still alive. when he brought him out to the cart he said, “ I’m still alive and I’m fine”. when the guard hears this he said that man is not dead yet. The younger

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