It is often said that Chivalry has been lost. That in today’s society, people don’t have the time or patience to act like a knight. More often than not, people are too caught up in their own lives that they don’t have the time to stop and think about helping others. Chivalry is the code of the knights. In Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, chivalry is displayed in many ways. The three ways that chivalry are displayed in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte D’Arthur and Marie Borroff’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are when Gawain volunteers, when he goes to find the Green Knight after a year, and after Arthur is killed.
Chivalry is shown when Gawain volunteers in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff. When the Green Knight came to Camelot he challenged all of the people to a deal. The deal was for one person to hit him in the neck with an axe however hard they wanted but he would do the same in one year and one day. King Arthur agrees to this deal. However Gawain volunteers to take the king's place. This shows chivalry by showing his courage and strength. Borroff shows this on page 174 line 116, “Would you grant me the grace to be gone from this bench and stand by you there, if I without discourtesy might quit this board.” Gawain is willing to sacrifice for the King. …show more content…
By holding up his end of the deal even though he thought it would mean he would die showed true courage. He chose to perhaps die honorably instead of live as a dishonored knight. On page 179 line 291 Borroff explains, “Now I feel it is the Fiend, in my five wits, that has tempted me to this tryst, to take my life.” Gawain knows exactly what he is getting himself into and decides not to waver. He knows that he is riding to his death but he decides to do the chivalrous thing and
Chivalry is shown when Gawain volunteers in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff. When the Green Knight came to Camelot he challenged all of the people to a deal. The deal was for one person to hit him in the neck with an axe however hard they wanted but he would do the same in one year and one day. King Arthur agrees to this deal. However Gawain volunteers to take the king's place. This shows chivalry by showing his courage and strength. Borroff shows this on page 174 line 116, “Would you grant me the grace to be gone from this bench and stand by you there, if I without discourtesy might quit this board.” Gawain is willing to sacrifice for the King. …show more content…
By holding up his end of the deal even though he thought it would mean he would die showed true courage. He chose to perhaps die honorably instead of live as a dishonored knight. On page 179 line 291 Borroff explains, “Now I feel it is the Fiend, in my five wits, that has tempted me to this tryst, to take my life.” Gawain knows exactly what he is getting himself into and decides not to waver. He knows that he is riding to his death but he decides to do the chivalrous thing and