The sixteenth century is the birth of the pirate’s signature. The perception of pirates is sea robbers and gangs of lawless men, due to the fact of the life at home to the life in piracy. Life at home included plagues, hard work on the land, harsh punishment and strict laws while life at sea consists of freedom, fresh air and wealth. The reason that pirates are mostly tough, rowdy, brutal and mercilessly cruel but that was only because they had one dream in the back of their mind; they wanted to become rich as quickly as possible. Most pirates, also known as buccaneers, attacked every ship that they saw, except for ships of their own country but still, there are pirates who attacked any ship they viewed, including boats of their own country. They had no soul. Privateers were sent by authorities to attack only enemy ships and they had a permit to do so. Out of the three types of pirates just mentioned, it shows three different personalities and you can’t judge a pirate as one.
The tales of ‘Peter Pan’ shows a different perspective of how children react to pirates. “’I refuse to be a pirate!’ cried John.” Instead of fearing pirates, John, the young child in Peter Pan sticks up for himself towards the evil Captain Hook when he asks him if he wants to join. In fairytales, Captain Hook looked like the typical sixteenth century pirate as you can tell by just looking at his name. He has big bushy black hair, a red coat and a hook as a hand. Pirates were still seen as brutal men but they weren’t as ruthless as the generation went on. The writer of this story tried to change the image of pirate to seem scary but instead, they make fun of them trying to tell children to overcome their demons. The reputation of pirates as a demon soon died out after this film was made.
Pirates aren’t as common as they used to be back in the sixteen, seventeenth and eighteenth century and modern pirates don’t look like the stereotypical image you would think of when you first see a pirate. Also they are only pirates in a certain area in the world, which is in Asia near Indonesia instead of being scattered all around the world. If you were to look at a boat full of men today, you wouldn’t think that those men were pirates but just mere men sailing to deliver goods. Although modern pirates have become more civilised, that doesn’t mean they have become less merciless. Today, pirates aren’t feared at all.
It is obviously clear that pirates are actually rude men who don’t care about what happens to anyone else as they are merciless. All they care about is their selves and sometimes their crew members. Throughout previous paragraphs, you can see that pirates have been feared less and less as the years pass by. I think that pirates shouldn’t be feared these days as they are less common and they are more powerful weapons you can use against them since technology has changed. Still, pirates are evil men with no heart.
