Robin Hood Greed

Although he grew up with very little he still learned the virtue of giving (doc. 1). Most people that came from that background of poverty and built a fortune would be greedy and too selfish it give back.

ROBIN HOOD In the years of King Richard the Lionheart (1189-1199) there lived a brave and intelligent man called Robin Hood. He was a feared outlaw, who loved liberty and hated oppression. He took the law into his own hands and robbed the rich to give to the poor. People loved him and thought of him as a justice-maker. In time he acquired a heroic reputation and came to represent the ideal of heroism of his age. Stories about him and his closest friends Friar Tuck, Little John, and Maid Marian may be found in the time. They say that Robin Hood and his companions lived in Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham. They were called the ‘merry men’ and used to wear green clothes, a particular shade of green, called

He does so and later discover his feeling of selflessness. “...Can’t bring the dead back to life on this earth. Can’t make the world loving and kind. Can’t change myself into a millionaire. But a patch of ground in this trashy lot- I can change that.”

kind and even helping the elderly. Around 85 years ago during the Great Depression the elderly were treated in the most terrible way, of course they weren’t treated as the worst because racism was still pretty big. They people around them were scamming the elderly from their money. Though the elderly were still being abused they still made a dent in the population and have enough people to make a minority. Though the elderly worked hard they lost their jobs. Though the elder abuse is 2-10 % it is still pretty high (“Ageism in America”). Though the Great Depression affected most of the people of the United States of America the ones who were affected by the most in everything but physical abuse were the elderly.

not get involved with the witch hunts. This shows that he was his own person.

Despite Conwells experiences, his audience repeatedly tried to prove him wrong and noted how awful it was that a Christian minister prefered to advise people to get rich rather than to preach the gospel. But Conwell believed that to make money honestly was to preach the gospel and to be poor was wrong. What the people did not understand was that a wealthy person can also be a pious person. Conwell tells the people that they should have money and it is their Christian and godly duty to do so. To be pious is to be carful of the duties owed by created beings to God; devout, godly, religious¹. The people associated wealth with being dishonest, dishonerable, mean, and contemptible. He told them that to think that to be pious you must be poor and awfully dirty is an terrible misconception.

Being poverty stricken is something that really humiliates him because people view him differently. He tried his best to take care of himself and look clean so he could fit in. He would go to Mister Ben’s grocery store to get ice and wait for it to melt so he could was his clothes. He felt shame when he received any help. Gregory explains, “There was shame in going to the Worthy Boy’s Annual Christmas dinner for you and your kind, because everybody knew what a worthy boy was” (167).

Robin who was about ten at the time, had many doors closed in his life.

Robin Hood faces a myriad of problems that can potentially influence the changes that are crucial for Robin’s organization, as well as affect the effectiveness of the insurrection. As the CEO of his organization, Robin has the

Robin Hood was not a thief. He was simply taking what was stolen from the common people and giving it back to them. The leader of the country was the true thief. He charged outrageous taxes that the people could barely pay, and oppressed them when they could not pay it. (“Robin Hood: The Folk Hero” 2). This is what makes him a thief. Charging outrageous taxes that almost no one can pay is unnecessarily and maliciously taking something that belongs to someone else for your own benefit.

Through critical analysis and research concerning the legends and characters surrounding Robin Hood, this paper will present the theme of social justice for the common man as purported by the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest.

Ragnar so detests Robin Hood because his motives are rooted in pity, not profit. His feeling is more explicitly understood after defining “pity;” it may be defined as, “a feeling of sympathy for and condolences with a person because of the plight he is in” (Merriam-Webster). Further, to “offer condolences” is “to suffer with” the recipient of said condolences. Therefore, to pity another and act on this feeling by giving alms is to make oneself suffer with the pitied, and thus condone his destitution. In the cases Ragnar is speaking of, it is clear that the one receiving the pity could assist himself if

What strategy do you recommend to Robin Hood to deal with the problems and issues he confronts?

This incident doesn’t express social tension as Robin Hood helps a member of the gentry, who is considered to be his superior in terms of fifteenth century landed hierarchy. This shows his fluidity in dealing with and helping people

Robin Hood was the Hero of Nottingham. He stole money from the rich and the greedy and gave it to the