In the most recent episode of The Serpent Queen, the drama brings out the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in historical fiction and storytelling. But was this infamous event really as this depicted in the series? Now let’s go into the details of what happened at this point and how the show deals with it.
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was, in fact, a real historical event that occurred in France on August 24 of 1572. This was a well coordinated and though attack against Protestants in France, known as the Huguenots. This massacre took place at a time when the French Catholics were fighting the Protestants, the Huguenots in what is now known as the French Wars of Religion.
The violence was first committed in Paris, but after the events expanded to other regions of the country. In a few days of violence more than a thousand Protestants were slain. The ‘butchery’, as Thomas called it, could have been the climax of the policy of religious persecution implemented by the leaders of the Catholic Church who perceived the followers of the Protestant faith as competitors for power.
As for the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, the viewers note that its depiction is somehow connected with the show’s story that unfolds around Catherine de’ Medici, an actress Samantha Morton. As for the details of the stories, it is necessary to mention that the given massacre is a historic fact, however, the show distorts it a little. As in the case of many subsequent historical series, historical events are used with a focus on dramatization and character development, which are sometimes filled with fictions.
Thus, in this episode, Catherine (Samantha Morton) herself is depicted as girding for the masscre which gives the episode and added dimension of tension. In this aspect, the writers of the show have deviated from the real life occurrences and provided their take of the psychological and political consequences of the massacre through the characters.
It is no secret that this author likes to turn history into a play and add some passion into the story. Due to the combination of historical facts with the fictional storyline the show has become very interesting to the viewers. Despite the fact that the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre did happen, the series more often uses it as setting for the story and to explain characters’ actions than as an actual historical event.
This narrative technique is effective in enabling the show to explore interesting and intricate political and personal drama of the characters of that period, as well as to depict important historical events and figures in a dramatic manner. But the audience has to recall that though there are actual history space in the TV show, the details of the massacre, the relations of the characters are fictionalized only.
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