The eternal heritage of the treasure island

 When we think of pirates, there are almost universal images that comes to mind, which have been enshrined throughout pop culture. Pirates has developed a sufficient reputation to say things like "shivering me wood!" and "Arr!" And because it has peg legs - maybe even wearing a parrot on their shoulders. This pirate idea, well the way they talk and the way they see, mostly come from the popular novel island and one of the film adaptations. Unfortunately, it might not have a lot of bearings in reality.

Treasure island serialized in magazines from October 1881 to January 1882 and published in the book form in 1883. It was written by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson under the pseudonym "Captain George North." This novel follows the Protagonist of the Youth Jim Hawkins, who found himself having a map that leads to buried treasures. It sounds familiar, right? Jim led the reader on the wild adventure, met a pirate like a one-legged captain John Silver and Israel, who wanted to take the treasure itself.

While the novel's treasure island certainly affects the way we think of pirates - and especially their suspected tendency to bury the property and mark it on a secret map - it is the film adaptation of 1950 books, directed by Byron Haskin, who gave us archetipal images. Pirates and pirate talks. It's in this film where the audience first hears pirates using words like "Matey" and say "Arrrr" instead of "yes." Long John Silver always has a parrot on his shoulder, and the other pirates in the film wearing eye patches and having hooks for hands, uniting some existing pyratic stereotypes. The next pirate film, from GOONIES (1985) to Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of Black Pearl (2003), showed the effect of behavior, greeting, and even costumes founded by treasure island.

Whether this pirate depiction is close to reality is a different story. Hollywood certainly takes a creative license in the way chosen to describe pirates at Treasure Island. Long John Silver's speech characteristics were taken by actor Robert Newton, who exaggerated the English language accents of their home countries for the effect of "piratical". He then played Blackbeard and Long John Silver in other films, further strengthening his image from the pirate in public awareness. In fact, pirates come from all over the world and have various accents and behavior. Long John Silver loses legs and uses crutches in books and has feet right on some adaptation. Peg and hooks are used as prostheses during the piracy, but pirates documented with such injuries rarely occur. Even though pirates sometimes catch and sell parrots, they may not save a lot as a pet. And, even though some people come up with an explanation why pirates may have weary eye fillings, this proof of practice is lacking. "Plow speech speakers" and stereotypical images of pirates, in the end, mostly founded by Treasure Island.