1. The main conflict is Sir Gawain deciding whether his knightly virtues are more important than his own life. He has to search for the Green Knight who has supernatural abilities. He did not know this when he accepted the challenge but still decides to keep his word. He succeeds in decapitating the Green Knight but he survives. Since Sir Gawain agreed to the rules of the games he must return in a year and one day. Gawain struggles with keeping his word because he wants to survive.
2. Sir Gawain is an epic hero because he shows his loyalty, honesty and bravery time and time again. His flaw is that he does value his own life so much that he will lie to protect it. He accepts the green girdle to protect himself from injury. In the end though, he admits he was given the green girdle to protect himself and agrees to wear it to show his shame and weakness. Since he admits his flaw this can show that he is indeed an honorable knight.
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In the hunting scenes they are hunting their prey. This is similar to the bedroom scenes where the lady of the castle is “hunting her prey.” The Lady tries to seduce Sir Gawain for three days. The hunting scenes and the bedroom scenes are closely related. On the first day, the animal being hunted is a deer. You could say that Sir Gawain is being cautious like a deer to avoid the lady’s seduction. The last two hunts are a boar and a fox. The hunts get harder as the lady tries harder to seduce Sir Gawain and he tries harder to resist.
6. The winner of the conflict between Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is of course the Green Knight. The Green Knight possesses supernatural abilities, which is why he could be decapitated and still survive. This was definitely a conflict he could not lose. In the end, the Green Knight does reveal himself to be Bertilak de Hautdesert. He also explains that the whole game was planned out through the manipulations of the sorceress Morgan le
2. Sir Gawain is an epic hero because he shows his loyalty, honesty and bravery time and time again. His flaw is that he does value his own life so much that he will lie to protect it. He accepts the green girdle to protect himself from injury. In the end though, he admits he was given the green girdle to protect himself and agrees to wear it to show his shame and weakness. Since he admits his flaw this can show that he is indeed an honorable knight.
4. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight both …show more content…
In the hunting scenes they are hunting their prey. This is similar to the bedroom scenes where the lady of the castle is “hunting her prey.” The Lady tries to seduce Sir Gawain for three days. The hunting scenes and the bedroom scenes are closely related. On the first day, the animal being hunted is a deer. You could say that Sir Gawain is being cautious like a deer to avoid the lady’s seduction. The last two hunts are a boar and a fox. The hunts get harder as the lady tries harder to seduce Sir Gawain and he tries harder to resist.
6. The winner of the conflict between Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is of course the Green Knight. The Green Knight possesses supernatural abilities, which is why he could be decapitated and still survive. This was definitely a conflict he could not lose. In the end, the Green Knight does reveal himself to be Bertilak de Hautdesert. He also explains that the whole game was planned out through the manipulations of the sorceress Morgan le