Ned Kelly Villain

“I've got big shoes to fill, this is my chance to do something, I have to seize the moment” is what Jackson once said but did he really do the best job when he was president? Andrew Jackson was a villain because he was apart of the Indian Removal Act, Trail Of Tears, made national bank changes and believed in Manifest Destiny.

Ned Kelly was an Australian bushranger who was born in 1854 in the bush north of Melbourne. He is famous for doing both bad and good things. We remember him today for the bad choices he made because of the bad things in this life. Throughout his life bad things happened to him and this is why he is a victim. Firstly, the police treated him unfairly, secondly, people were racist against him because he was Irish and lastly, his punishment was too harsh.

In the actual version of events, Constable Fitzpatrick arrives at the Kelly homestead to arrest Dan Kelly, Ned’s younger brother, for alleged horse theft. While Fitzpatrick is at the Kelly household, he sexually assaults Kate Kelly, Ned’s older sister, and as a result is shot in the hand by Ned’s mother, Ellen Kelly. Ellen then tends Fitzpatrick’s wounds and sends him on his way, making Fitzpatrick promise that he would not tell the police. When Fitzpatrick returns to the station he claims that Ned Kelly had shot him three times in an ambush, even though Ned wasn’t even at the house. Ellen Kelly is convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to three years hard labour as a result.

Villain, victim and hero. Ned Kelly, “with all that he was, and for all that he did, belongs to the true Australia – not the Australia of the shams and the money-jugglers, but the Australia that sweats and suffers and fights…” (IronOutlaw, Clive Turnbull’s View On The Kelly Outbreak, 2016). Ned Kelly (1854-1880) was a notorious Australian outlaw. He murdered three policemen, robbed two banks and committed numerous other crimes. Regardless of his criminality, people claim Ned “Australia’s equivalent of Robin Hood.” (UpFromAustralia, 2016). Ned Kelly was a hero, a quintessential Australian battler. He helped the poor and fought against inequality.

Edward Ned Kelly was Australia’s most famous bushranger; regarded by many as a hero who fought “for the rights of the battler.” Whether Ned Kelly was a hero, however, has been debated throughout Australia’s history. Evidence shows that Ned was a murderous villain who terrorised towns and robbed wealthy pastoralists; a man who broke the law and committed an array of crimes that were both evil and immoral. Ned Kelly was a villain; an outlaw and thief who is wrongly immortalised as an Australian hero.

William Andrew Myers, in his essay “Ethical Aliens: The Challenge of Extreme Perpetrators to Humanism” originally published in Colette Balmain and Lois Drawmer’s volume edition of Something Wicked This Way Comes: Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness (2009), examines “extreme perpetrators” and our need to recognize the human in them. Myers supports his idea of “extreme perpetrators” by defining these people through a few expert opinions, categorizing the three central culprits (murderous dictators, serial killers, and ideological killers), and reasons why we distance ourselves from them but should take the time to understand their differences from humane people. The purpose of Myers’ essay is not necessarily to defend dangerous murders’ actions

Ned Kelly, born of an ex-Irish convict, is forever immortalised in Australian folk stories as the people’s hero, and the authorities’ criminal. Born and raised in the Australian state of Victoria, this figure had a hard past. Ned Kelly lost his father when he was eleven, and he and his family were forced into a life of stealing, just to stay alive. By many he was seen as the hero, saving a young boy when he was only eleven, and doing what he thought was right for his friends and family. But Ned Kelly was seen, mainly by the authorities, as a criminal, stealing cattle from a young age, robbing people, and large banks. Though like the majority of all criminals, Ned Kelly had to pay for his crimes, and was hung at the Melbourne Gaol for three

If given the opportunity would someone let a large amount of money go unclaimed? Waking Ned Devine is a movie about how a town comes together to claim a lottery win. Jackie (Ian Bannen) knows someone in his town has won the lottery, along with his wife Annie (Fionnula Flanagan) and his good friend Michael (David Kelly) illustrate a plan to find out who the winner of the jackpot is. They invite the town which only consists of about fifty-two people over for dinner thinking that whoever does not show is the winner. Once dinner is over and they realized his neighbor Ned Devine did not show Jackie decides to take it to him only to find out he has died of shock from the big win. The three come up with a plan on how this money can be claimed by his friend Michael to pose as the late Ned. However, once they found out that the amount won is way higher than expected they now must involve the whole town to be able to claim the lottery win.

Is Ned Kelly, a hero? A, villain? Or is he a victim? Many people have a different opinion on this topic. There is no doubt that Ned Kelly was a hero and a victim because he was one of the Australian greatest bushranger, who not only outsmarted the police but also stood up for his family’s rights.

Edward "Ned" Kelly was an Australian bushranger of Irish descent, he is a well-known Australian legend from the 18 hundreds. Ned Kelly has done some good, bad and plain out evil things in his life, but what if there is a reason to this? Back in the 18 hundreds things were not as great as some might think…. And Ned Kelly and his family fell victim to many things ranging from poverty to poor role models. No doubt about it Ned Kelly is an Australian legend who has done many things in his short life…. But what if there is more to how he got to the point of robbing banks and shooting Police officers? Ned Kelly was born December 1854 and lived 25 years dying in 1880. But one question that still plays on peoples mind is he a victim, villain or hero? Here is my evidence on why I think Ned Kelly is a victim and not a villain or hero.

In the memoir “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah, there are several examples of people who show they are capable of evil, because everyone is.

So they reason Dr. Horrible is trying to kill captain hammer is because that just what villains do. This is something most people see as negative and they label him with this trait. This would be correct with the dark night but not Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. This movie would be better analyzed by a situational view: the view that our individual behaviors are actually influenced by external factors. In this movie he does many things that show he is not a villain. He shows compassion and love for Penny. When he tries to kill Captain Hammer at the end of the movie he says “No sign of Penny. I would give anything not to have her see”. This shows that he doesn’t want penny to see him actually commit evil acts. Also, he doesn’t really want to kill anyone. When he was first told he had to kill to get in the ELE, he stated that “killing is not elegant or creative and it’s not my style”. When his henchman suggest he kill a little boy who grows up to be president or an old lady he is disgusted by that idea. This shows that Dr. Horrible doesn’t want to hurt people, but actually he just wants to change the world for the better. They only way to do this is become part of the ELE.

Ned was a victim for many reasons that were out of his control. He was victimised because he was raised in an Irish family and because he was the oldest male in his family he had to take up the role of his father and it would have been hard growing up with no role model. Almost all of the male members of his family were involved in crime. This forced Ned to become a criminal because the police thought of him as one of the Kelly family and a criminal. Ned grew up in an Irish family and his family were criminals this means for the rest of Ned’s life he would be victimised by the federal authorities. This makes Ned a victim of colonial society.

The Villains of All Nations is book written by Marcus Rediker that follows the origins of the pirate boom before and after the War of Spanish Succession. The book covers infamous pirates like Bartholomew Roberts, William Fly, and Edward Teach also known as Blackbeard.It discusses the grim environment of working the seas for the government, what lead many people to turn to piracy, the tale of the first women pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, how piracy impacted slavery, the pirates bonds of brotherhood under the Jolly Roger, and the events that lead to the death of the pirate era itself.

History tells us that these laws did not match either the expectations of the community or the political hype of the government. A prime example of this involves one of Australia’s greatest icons, Ned Kelly. A horrific set of laws were introduced in Victoria when Ned Kelly was around. These laws reversed the onus of proof, gave the power to shoot on sight to any citizen and made it an offence to even know a bushranger. These terrible laws passed through the parliament with almost no discussion, debate or dissent and it is generally accepted that these laws did not even work as Ned remained unfound for two years after these laws were placed in action and those like Frank Gardiner were never actually caught. Many historians have written that these laws may have even played a part in increasing public support for the outlaw gangs of that time (Graham, 2013). This shows us that laws which target specific groups are not good for the community or the justice system and must not be placed in action. These laws did not work back then and will not work now.