Obstacles In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

Have you ever heard of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? Well if not it is a very interesting poem. King Arthur and his knights were at the round table celebrating the new year when they were interrupted by a Green Knight on a horse arrived. He had proposed a challenge to the king and his knights to cut the Green Knight’s head off and then a year later let the him do the same to the one who took the challenge. Sir Gawain volunteered to step in for the king. He also overcomes some obstacles that some knights might not have been able to overcome. Sir Gawain did this even being “the youngest knight of the roundtable”(Dunn). The whole point of this challenge is to test Sir Gawain and see if he is a noble and trustworthy knight. Throughout Sir Gawain’s …show more content…
By doing this Sir Gawain proved himself to be an honorable man. He had to overcome a lot of obstacles on his way to find the Green Knight. One thing that he had to deal with was loneliness “For weeks he traveled alone”(Ridley 65). Traveling then was an ordeal then nevermind doing it alone. He really proved his worth at this point because many other people would have said forget it and turn back and give up. Gawain fought through and overcame the “cold, threatening woods of North Wales”(Ridley 65). Making his way through the woods of North Wales he had to fight off “dragons, ogres, and wild beasts”(Ridley 65). That show off his heroism because a lot of people would have ran instead of staying and fighting like Sir Gawain does. Gawain finally comes upon a castle and get invited in by King Bertilak and invited to stay until he has to go meet his fate with the Green Knight. While at the castle he receives temptations from Lady Bertilak which were kisses. She had kept leading onto him but he respectfully denied. Sir Gawain’s bravery is unreal in this part of the poem and showed be copied by people who want to learn how to become a better more courageous