Thesis statement
Outlaws are a basic need for any society to keep the balance of power in suitable control for any one or more person who happens to fall into this category.
Introduction
Outlaws are a basic need for any society to keep the balance of power in suitable control for any one or more person who happens to fall into this category. Why are there outlaws in the world and what purpose do they fill in society. To get an answer by using the most well known and influential outlaw in history, Robin Hood, comparing him to the present day outlaws(criminals).
Legend
The telling of the story of Robin Hood depends on the people passing his story over and over again. He succeeds because he is a superlative archer, consummate swordsman and …show more content…
Everything we know is from five surviving poems or ballads and a fragment of a play. The poems or ballads were collected by Joseph Ritson. In Scott’s version, his career begins to be fixed in time to the period when Richard the Lionheart was fighting in the Crusades. Between the last years of the fifteenth and middle of the sixteenth century there appeared no less than five editions of lengthy poem describing, the deeds of Robin Hood. The various versions of his career that circulated during the next two centuries often contradict one …show more content…
In his soul he rebels against a social order which denies it to him and whatever the world he lives in, he accuses either that social order or the entire material universe of injustice . . . And in addition he carries within himself the wish to have what he cannot have — if only in the form of a fairy tale.”— Eric Hobsbawm, Bandits (1981). Robin could not side with the king’s soldiers or future soldiers of any empire. Five decades later, the lead protagonist of a cult favorite American cable show, Leverage, announces at the beginning of each episode: “The rich and the powerful take what they want; we steal it back for you.” After all, we live in something rapidly approaching a Robin Hood era. The rich and powerful now command almost every corner of the planet and, in order to maintain their control, threaten to despoil every natural resource to the point of
Outlaws are a basic need for any society to keep the balance of power in suitable control for any one or more person who happens to fall into this category.
Introduction
Outlaws are a basic need for any society to keep the balance of power in suitable control for any one or more person who happens to fall into this category. Why are there outlaws in the world and what purpose do they fill in society. To get an answer by using the most well known and influential outlaw in history, Robin Hood, comparing him to the present day outlaws(criminals).
Legend
The telling of the story of Robin Hood depends on the people passing his story over and over again. He succeeds because he is a superlative archer, consummate swordsman and …show more content…
Everything we know is from five surviving poems or ballads and a fragment of a play. The poems or ballads were collected by Joseph Ritson. In Scott’s version, his career begins to be fixed in time to the period when Richard the Lionheart was fighting in the Crusades. Between the last years of the fifteenth and middle of the sixteenth century there appeared no less than five editions of lengthy poem describing, the deeds of Robin Hood. The various versions of his career that circulated during the next two centuries often contradict one …show more content…
In his soul he rebels against a social order which denies it to him and whatever the world he lives in, he accuses either that social order or the entire material universe of injustice . . . And in addition he carries within himself the wish to have what he cannot have — if only in the form of a fairy tale.”— Eric Hobsbawm, Bandits (1981). Robin could not side with the king’s soldiers or future soldiers of any empire. Five decades later, the lead protagonist of a cult favorite American cable show, Leverage, announces at the beginning of each episode: “The rich and the powerful take what they want; we steal it back for you.” After all, we live in something rapidly approaching a Robin Hood era. The rich and powerful now command almost every corner of the planet and, in order to maintain their control, threaten to despoil every natural resource to the point of