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Literary notes about OUTLAW (AI summary)

The term "outlaw" is employed in literature with an intriguing blend of romantic valor, social critique, and legal designation. In several medieval romances, such as Walter Scott's Ivanhoe ([1], [2], [3], [4]), the outlaw emerges as a complex figure—sometimes heroic, sometimes rebellious—whose status challenges conventional norms. Similarly, Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood narratives ([5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13]) use the term to evoke both admiration and the thrill of defiance against authority, emphasizing a dual identity as both noble and renegade. In contrast, other authors, including Victor Hugo ([14], [15]) and historical texts like those by Thucydides ([16]) and Snorri Sturluson ([17], [18]), apply "outlaw" more stringently as a label for those outside the law, whether for treason or moral dishonor. Even modern literary reflections, such as those found in Freud’s analysis ([19]) or in subversive writings ([20]), reveal an evolving usage that mirrors societal tensions and the allure of living beyond prescribed boundaries.
  1. exclaimed the chief Outlaw.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  2. “Thou art no outlaw,” said Rebecca, in the same language in which he addressed her; “no outlaw had refused such offers.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  3. “Thou art no outlaw,” said Rebecca, in the same language in which he addressed her; “no outlaw had refused such offers.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  4. I am not an outlaw, then, fair rose of Sharon.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  5. If Your Majesty would like I will tell you a certain adventure of this outlaw.
    — from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  6. He an outlaw, forsooth!
    — from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  7. Will you become a hunted outlaw's bride?
    — from Poems by Victor Hugo
  8. "The great outlaw dead and his right-hand man in my hands!
    — from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  9. I am an outlaw, and get my living by hook and by crook in a manner it boots not now to tell of.
    — from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  10. "Why," quoth he, "it is a merry thing to think of one stout outlaw like Robin Hood meeting another stout outlaw like Guy of Gisbourne.
    — from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  11. I find this outlaw in my grasp; shall I, then, foolishly cling to a promise so hastily given?
    — from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  12. "Why," quoth he, "it is a merry thing to think of one stout outlaw like Robin Hood meeting another stout outlaw like Guy of Gisbourne.
    — from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  13. Why, forsooth, to come here to Sherwood to hunt up one Robin Hood, also an outlaw, and to take him alive or dead.
    — from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  14. "He is an outlaw—" They cried out to me on every side,— "That is right!
    — from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo
  15. Outlaw him.
    — from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo
  16. This was done without the knowledge of the Athenians; as it is against the law to bury in Attica an outlaw for treason.
    — from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
  17. A man for whom no compensation was due was a dishonored person, or an outlaw.
    — from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
  18. The king assembled a Thing, and had Rolf declared an outlaw over all Norway.
    — from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
  19. In the district of Mekeo, British New Guinea, a widower forfeits all civil rights and lives like an outlaw.
    — from Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud
  20. ( An Outlaw's Diary , p. 110, 1923).
    — from Secret societies and subversive movements by Nesta Helen Webster

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