How Does Robin Hood Show Honor

The legend of Robin Hood has been around for nearly one thousand years. For the past several hundred years, Robin and his Merry Men have been known for stealing from the rich, particularly tax collectors, and giving to the poor; however, because this is still stealing and Robin had also killed at least one of the king’s deer, Robin and his men were known as outlaws. While they may have been outlaws, Robin Hood and his Merry Men were more like knights in the way that they dealt honorably with opponents in battle, defended the weak and helpless, and protected women and children. One part of the Knightly Code is to deal honorably with opponents in battle. An example of this is when Robin encountered Little John in the woods for the first time and he swapped his longbow for a stick to even out the battlefield. If Robin had kept his longbow, the fight would have been unfairly in Robin’s favor, but because Robin is honorable when he deals
Robin reflected this particular section of the code when Much had killed one of the king’s deer and Sir Guy was going to kill him for that. Robin claimed that Much was one of his men, which, at the time, he was not, and took the blame for the dead deer instead, though he managed to scare Sir Guy away instead of being killed. This shows Robin defending the weak and helpless because Much surely would have been killed by Sir Guy over the deer if Robin had not stepped in and taken the blame. Later, after having heard the Prince John was going to start raising taxes “for Richard’s ransom,” Robin gathered as many men from the villages as he could to train to fight against John and his men for the people. Robin is defending the weak and helpless here by expanding his forces to keep the court from robbing the poor. Based on these examples, it is clear that Robin Hood and his Merry Men follow the Knightly Code in defending the weak and