Conflict Theory In Disney's Robin Hood
“Robin Hood and Little John running through the forest jumping benches, dodging trees just trying to get away.” (Robin Hood. Disney:1973) This is one of the first lines of my favorite Disney movie. The title of course being “Robin Hood”. The animated version of this classic tale where our main character is a delinquent who robs the wealthy to help feed the poor. Him and his comrade, Little John find every opportunity to rob from the greedy, and ruthless Prince John. All the goods they steal they pass out and distribute to those who suffer poverty due to Prince Johns absurdly high taxes.
There is one abundantly clear theory that matches this story, and that would be the “conflict theory”. So, first thing is first; What is a conflict theory? This criminal theory is defined as crime being provoked by a political reason. Political reason being what? Over taxing …show more content…
Criminologists say yes.” (Giddens et al. 2016:185) While watching this movie, there were a few observations I couldn’t help but notice. One of them being that most of the poor characters were small animals such as bunnies, mice, turtles, chickens, and dogs. Not predators by any means. Then you look at Little John and Robin Hood. Robin Hood, is portrayed as a sly, cunning fox, which makes sense because he’s a thief while Little John is drawn as a fat soft brown bear. After that you look at the villains; Every single one of them is a predator. The sheriff is a wolf, Prince John is a Lion, his cohort Sir Hiss a snake, the guards as vultures, crocodiles, and wild dogs. We see here that the real criminals are the predators but they are also all male. “Men are more likely than women for example to commit crimes.” (Giddens et al. 2016:185) The little critters are the victims of horrible tax fees. However, in the wealthy characters minds it’s Robin Hood that’s the villain. In the towns mind Robin Hood is their savior and
There is one abundantly clear theory that matches this story, and that would be the “conflict theory”. So, first thing is first; What is a conflict theory? This criminal theory is defined as crime being provoked by a political reason. Political reason being what? Over taxing …show more content…
Criminologists say yes.” (Giddens et al. 2016:185) While watching this movie, there were a few observations I couldn’t help but notice. One of them being that most of the poor characters were small animals such as bunnies, mice, turtles, chickens, and dogs. Not predators by any means. Then you look at Little John and Robin Hood. Robin Hood, is portrayed as a sly, cunning fox, which makes sense because he’s a thief while Little John is drawn as a fat soft brown bear. After that you look at the villains; Every single one of them is a predator. The sheriff is a wolf, Prince John is a Lion, his cohort Sir Hiss a snake, the guards as vultures, crocodiles, and wild dogs. We see here that the real criminals are the predators but they are also all male. “Men are more likely than women for example to commit crimes.” (Giddens et al. 2016:185) The little critters are the victims of horrible tax fees. However, in the wealthy characters minds it’s Robin Hood that’s the villain. In the towns mind Robin Hood is their savior and