The legend of Robin Hood has survived in ballad, book, poem, play, and modern media. The story of Robin Hood has been of great interest among a select group of historians. It is highly debated whether he actually existed. Many historical texts of the time describe outlaws that closely match the description of Robin Hood. The legend of Robin Hood was originally based on a real person.
Over the years, the legend of Robin Hood has endured great change. Through each generation, the story acquired new characters, tales, expanded themes, and some fresh historical contexts to adapt to the interests of the audience. The legend collected many fragments of other stories as time went on. Also as time passed, the character of Robin Hood underwent many changes. Originally, Robin Hood was portrayed as a yeoman, then transformed into a mistreated nobleman, later turned into an Englishman protesting the domination of the Normans, and finally, through modern adaptation he has came to be known as a social rebel who takes from the rich and gives to the poor. There is no way to ensure that a certain historical figure was in fact the basis for Robin Hood, however there exists many possible candidates. In order to find a possible identity that fits the persona of Robin Hood, one must look at the earliest works of literature that mention his name.
For hundreds of years, historians have written about when Robin Hood had lived. However, many of these dates conflict with each other. One of the earliest surviving ballads from a manuscript collection, written around 1450 and which describes a man named “Robyn Hode,” is conventionally known as Robin Hood and the Monk. This work also included a prayer against thieves and robbers, and t...
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...ve used the alias Robin Hood in their crimes. For example, in 1498, a man named Roger Marshall led an uprising of 100 people and used the alias Robin Hood claiming his actions were typical of the legendary figure. There is a very good possibility that a real man may have inspired these aliases. However, British historian Barrie Dobson claims that Robin Hood was possibly just a nickname for criminals.
In conclusion, it is impossible, as far as our knowledge goes, to know for certain if Robin Hood was an actual person, based on an actual person, or was merely legend. There is strong evidence that Robin Hood was based on an actual person and there are many possible candidates for the real-life Robin Hood, but there is no definite evidence for any of them. The true identity of the legendary Robin Hood may one day be known if more evidence presents itself.
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are filled with many entertaining tales from a variety of characters of different social classes and background. The first two tales told, by the knight and the miller, articulate very different perspectives of medieval life. Primarily, The tales of both the knight and the miller bring strikingly different views on the idea of female agency, and as we will discover, Chaucer himself leaves hints that he supports the more involved, independent Alison, over the paper-thin character of Emily.
Summary: In the chapter "How Little John Lived at the Sheriff's" from the book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle, Little John (disguised as Reynold Greenleaf) goes to live at the Sheriff's after accepting to join his service. During his stay, Little John became a favorite of the Sheriff's, allowing him to enjoy feasting on rich dishes, superior alcohol, and sleeping late. Six months later, growing fat and sluggish, Little John stays in bed instead of going hunting with the Sheriff and there he begins to reminisce about his merry life in Sherwood Forest among his fellow merry men and Robin Hood. Little John decides that after breakfast, he will leave and go back to his fellow friends. As he approached
Robin Hood was a chivalry kind of guy, helping people fight evil and ridding the countryside of a terrible king. Probably the best reason of his chivalry was his act of standing up to the evil king. He saw that there was a unjust situations and he had to take a role in taking that government down. He organized a legion of men to do this act of chivalry. He took chances to get deeds accomplished and he gloriously accomplished those things. The king, even though robin should have been honoring him, was evil and that’s why robin had to do what he did.
Now, Batman did not magically just appear from thin air. What drives him to do what he does? Tragedy. Batman before Batman was a normal rich boy named
Towns were not known at this time only villages and they were distant from one another. Travel was expensive, difficult, and dangerous. Thieves were all over the place notably in forests and when a lonely person would stumble upon their path they would take everything and brutally wound the person. A notorious of these thieves is Robin Hood.
The legend of Robin Hood includes a group of so called outlaws, and how they go about fighting and cooperating with the others in their land. Along with the death of his father, Robin left his home after it was burned down to go and live in the woods. There, he assembled an army of loyal men to help him fight against unjust laws and actions in return for shelter, food, and camaraderie. Although considered outlaws, Robin Hood and his men clearly show actions of the Knightly Code, such as: defending the weak and helpless, fighting only in just causes, and dealing honorably with opponents in battle.
King Arthur, is he fake or was he real? There is evidence to prove both. As this question lay unanswered for centuries, many people have tried to answer it but could not completely. A lot of books and online resources can prove that he was just legend. But also there are a lot to prove he was real. Maybe this essay will help.
Without a doubt, Jesse James has the greatest outlaw story ever told. Robin Hood suites his legend and fame very well. The influential being that is Jesse James shall be forever immortalized. His story will be passed on from generation to generation. He is one of the most controversial legends there is. Immortalized simply for doing wrong, but in a fascinating way.
Response: Good question. Robin and the Merrymen's mission had started out as a personal vendetta against the Sheriff. It seems to me that in order for him to achieve that goal he must embrace a larger goal. This isn't all that unusual. We come across this all the time in business. A private inventor develops a new product that's really good. He starts a company and owns 100% of it. He does this to maintain control.
Robin Hood should begin implementing the plan that clearly states his goals as a leader and confirms the organizations needs to achieve these goals. Robin is now a part of something much larger than himself. He must continue to broaden his original focus and become reconnected with the allies he sought out to support him in the beginning. With his environment changing continuously, the time for pondering must come to an end.
	The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexandre Dumas, tells the story of a man, Edmond Dantes, a sailor who goes through being betrayed by his enemies and thrown in to a dark prison cell to planning revenge on his enemies. His behavior and personality changes after spending 14 years in jail for a crime that he didn’t commit. Edmond Dantes was thrown in jail ,after being framed by his enemies, accused of committing treason and being a bonapartist. The story takes place during the Napoleonic Era while the usurper, Napoleon has escaped to his place of exile, the Isle of Elba, located in the Mediterranean Sea.
Beowulf is an epic and Robin Hood is a ballad. An epic is much longer than a ballad, and it depicts the heroic acts of the main character. Beowulf is about the main character, Beowulf, defeating a multitude of monsters and saving the Hero. A ballad of the other hand, is divided into short stanzas, has a slant rhyme scheme, and is meant to be sung. The rhyme scheme in Robin Hood is evident in every stanza, every second and fourth line rhymes. For example line 6 says “all under the greenwood tree,” and line 8 says “as fine as fine might
In the story of Robin Hood, Robin begins his life as a law abiding citizen. After his father is killed, the sheriff of Nottingham denies him his father’s place as a ranger. He is coerced into killing a deer in front of a large group of lawmen, making him a criminal. From that point in the story Robin becomes a member of the Sherwood men. These men do not just live in Sherwood Forest; they take a toll from anyone who is passing through the forest. All of these men are deemed outlaws by the local sheriff, and his military. By being pronounced as outlaws, it makes them bad people who break the laws. From a different point of view, they might be outlaws but they chose that life because they were breaking unjust laws. They as a group agreed to break any law they thought was unjust and unfair to the people of England, while pledging full allegiance to the king of England. In a public view these people were bad men, but one who came to know then could see them as good men who wanted the best for England and all of its people.
Robin Hood and his Band of Merry Men had a successful first year. With new recruits pouring in from the furthest outreaches of England, Robin had met his objective of strengthening in number. Although he was satisfied with the size of the organization, he has realized necessary preparations had not been made to accommodate the now over abundance of members of his organization. Many challenges now face Robin such as a lack of provisions and lack of funds to support the band, but he cannot lose focus of their original foundation of "Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor". In addition they have to stay focused on their long term goal to remove Prince John from power by freeing King Richard from his imprisonment in Austria. Robin Hood has to form structure within his organization so that it can continue to grow and prosper.
Stories are have been part of every culture, some of those stories teach a way a life, others show how us a way of culture, others show how Kingdoms have been built and just like that destroyed into pieces, but the Legend of Robin Hood is different, not only because it has been around for centuries but because the legend has changed so much over the years, and with that each Robin Hood movie is way different than the last one, mainly because the historic events that were happening during the filming of the movie were strong enough to change the plot of the movie and change certain archetypes. This is because a film will have greater success if the audience can relate or connect to the plot and the characters in the movie or story.