The Popular Heros : The Legend Of Robin Hood

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

Have you ever heard of a hoodlum performing a Good Samaritan act? Well, the typical stereotype is that hoodlums don’t do anything but hurt the community, but two boys broke that stereotype. The Greasers proved to be the heroes in the story, not like the beloved Socs. The three greasers who showed the most heroism are Johnny, Darry, and Dally. They sacrificed themselves to a more significant cause or to save the lives of others.

Robin is in England at a point where the noble are oppressing the poor with taxes and harsh punishments. Prince John (Claude Rains) has forcefully taken over the crowd and plans to tax the poor to get more money for his brother’s release from capture. Robin hood and the gang are just trying to level the score and this is where are first code of chivalry comes into play. Robin Hood shows us he is a defender of women and children by taking the food from Much (Herbert Mundin) that he catches and gives it to the hungry people in the town even though it is illegal to hunt the king's meat. Then he also protects the women by not harming Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland) when they capture the legion of Prince John’s men. These examples give the audience an understanding that the bandits are actually the good guys because villains are savages and mean to the helpless but as we can see, they are the heroes in this dark

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 spends his days protecting the saxons who have been discriminated against by the upper classes and in return the saxons listen for information that could potentially protect Robin from the traps that the sheriff sets to capture him. Also, because Robin Hood is an outlaw, he is also discriminated by society and because of that Maid Marian feels the need to help save him from the Norman that are hunting him by gathering intel from the people in the castle to tell Robin their plans. Yet again, this reinforces the idea that because Maid Marian sees herself as Robin’s protector, she is willing to do whatever it takes to help him, including betraying her own household to help an outlaw. This further proves how the authors are using conflict between the classes to validate that one's inner morality trumps listening to the community’s

A thief considered a hero. He was an excellent archer. Robin Hood was a hero in his time. While many believe he was a thief and a villain to the law, others feel he was a hero to the poor. Some people might say that Robin Hood stole from the government, and stealing is a crime, no matter what your cause is. They might also say that if people in this day and time stole from the rich and gave the money to the poor, they would be arrested because stealing is against the law. Finally, people who think Robin Hood was wrong in what he did might say that he betrayed his country.

To understand the importance of Robin Hood and his adventures, one must first appreciate the extremely mundane lives of the typical English peasant-farmer. Born into duty and loyalty, calcified feudalism forced the serfs to work the land on which they were born for little profit and gain for a lifetime. Most were illiterate, uneducated, and highly provincial. A serf’s purpose was to remain loyal to his lord and to toil obediently farming the land until death. Even the prospect of climbing into nobility oneself was impossible. God had made serfs into serfs and lords into lords. To rebel against one’s station in life was to rebel against God. In other words, serfs had nothing to strive for in the socioeconomic order of medieval England. These fettered minds gave birth to a hero that captured the hopes and dreams that themselves they could never achieve. The

<br>People can learn a lesson not only about glory, but of bravery also. Besides glory, bravery is used throughout the novel also. An example of this is when Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert dies for Rebecca. Ivanhoe demonstrates bravery when he fights Brian to repay Rebecca for her care when he is hurt. He is also very brave when he fights for his Saxon image. Even though he is not a major character in this book, Robin Hood also shows bravery. He robs from the rich and gives to the poor which breaks certain parts in the Code of Chivalry. Through his actions, he fulfills part of the Code. He is brave and has a love of adventure in doing so, but his integrity and respect to the king is taken by his criminal actions. People can learn from these examples that sometimes being brave is not pretty. Both Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert and Robin Hood had to suffer consequences for being brave.

When dealing with the fictional character of Robin Hood, it is easy to get lost in the fantasy of his tale because of the additions to the story through oral tradition over the years. However, there was a real- life Robin Hood who was much different than what twentieth century cinemas portrayed him as being. The real Robin Hood was born at Locksley in the county of Nottingham during the reign of Henry II. It may be confusing to many people to hear that he was a yeoman, nothing more, nothing less. The ideal supremacy from his legends depicts him as being a knight in shining armor, but the history from his ballads tells otherwise.

In this essay were going to be talking about how ancient culture still inspires and teaches us. The myths and fables we are using is The Swollen Fox, The Hen and the Golden Egg, and Every Hero a child should know Perseus.There are many type of triggers. The meaning we are using of triggers is you would do anything to get rid of something you're anxious about. The triggers we are talking about is hunger,impatience,and foolishness.

While this would satisfy Robin personally, this would not provide a true solution to what the Merrymen seek. After the sheriff is dead there would be another person there to take his place that would continue to the same thing.

On balance, it can be postulated that the medieval tradition of Robin Hood doesn’t express social tensions, as it arguably presents a socially cohesive society. This is particularly evident in the Gest when Robin lends money to the knight: “If thou hast no more,” sayde Robyn, “I woll nat one peny, And yf thou have need of any more, More shall lend the”. This is an example of Robin Hood’s charity to those who have fallen upon unfortunate circumstances, had spent all his money and mortgaged his land to save his son.

One of Robin Hood’s problems was the increasing size of his band. He was hoping that strength lay in numbers and the more Merry men he had, the better it would be for him to fight against the sheriff’s administration. He did not put enough attention into the number of people that were being recruited. The problem occurred when the number of me increased; the band turns into a big company complicating the situation and interests of the initial ideology. While more men were recruited into the organization, Robin had less face-to-face interaction with all men. The missing interaction makes things get out of control and get hard for him to enforce rules and regulations, turning

Robin and the Merrymen is a company who are in business to steal from the rich and give to the poor. The organization had begun as a personal interest to Robin, and has grown with allies and new recruits to become a very large organization. Robin is the head of all operations with few delegates who have their own specific duties.

Robin Hood's good traits are easily seen throughout the story. The author did a good job of making his hero come across as a good person, who has often been misinterpreted because of things that he did as a young boy. Showing the change Robin Hood has made since he was a little boy easily allows the reader to better understand how great he really is, and how he is helping not only himself, but all of the poorer community.<br><br>Robin Hood was faced with issues from very early on in his life. His mothers death was very difficult for him, but living with his fathers love for another women, after his mother had died, was just too much for him and he threatened his father that staying with that women would cost him his only sons love. Robin