Why or why not?
Prompt The outlaw gang are men who risk their lives for what they get. They depend upon each other for their safety, and their dependence builds a loyalty beyond the appeal of interest. How might you compare the outlaw gang in The Beggar’s Opera to that of the chivalric code? Does Gay give the reader a different understanding of the hypocrisies of the aristocratic 18th century gentleman, parodied by the outlaw gang? How has the gentleman changed from the “chivalric knight” to the modern aristocrat? Do you feel something is lost in this transition from earlier fiction we have read?