Sir Galwin And The Green Knight, Paradise Lost, And Franklin's Tale

One of the main themes that were intertwined between a lot of the texts we read was bravery. Most people know what bravery is and what is means but do we really understand it and why it is important to have? In this English course I learned more then just information from the historical texts we read, I learned that being brave and standing up for your self can get you very far in life. The main texts that stood out to me that exemplified this the most were Beowulf, Sir Galwin and the Green Knight, Paradise Lost, and Franklin’s Tale, that is why I have put them on my Medal of Bravery. Bravery is not something that can be taught from one person to another, it is already buried in that person, they just have to know how to use it. Beowulf was a very brave leader; he was able to put his life on the line for his people. He battled against Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon even …show more content…
The bravery he had was a little different then Beowulf’s because at first he was very scared of the Green Knight and didn’t want to take the challenge, but he soon found his bravery and took the challenge from King Arthur. His braveness died back down after he chopped off the Green Knight’s head because it didn’t kill him like he thought it would. Gawain was brave enough to seek his destiny and met up with the Green Knight to receive the blow that he gave to the Green Knight a year before. The knight barely gave him a tap on the third feint, because he was untruthful about the girdle, but nothing else. “This is the sign of sore loss that I have suffered there for the cowardice and converting that I came to there; This is the badge of false faith that I was found in there” (2507-2509). Gawain was brave enough to wear the girdle on his arm as a reminder of his failure. The knights in Arthur’s court join him to support him and his bravery to accept the challenge offered by the Green