Sir Gawain And Lanval Analysis

In both Sir Gawain & The Green knight and Lanval the authors use Lady Bertilak and Queen Guinevere to bring up the question of how both lanval and Gawain are knights because if they where knights they should be courting, flirting and crossing boundary’s and how this reflects on there trothed and keeping their word as antithetical to acting virtuously. In Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, The lady Bertilak goes to Gawain room and asks him to sleep with her; this is crucial because in being a good knight he must be courteous to her and accept her demands. Though if he accepts her demand he would be virtuous in the eyes of being a good knight but would also be breaking the trust that lord Bertilak has with him if he sleeps with his wife. Furthermore, he would …show more content…
Queen Guinevere then calls him un-courteous, unkind to his king, to his host and accuses him of homosexuality, which lanval returns in kind by boasting about the extreme beauty of his lover and points out that even her servant are more beautiful than the queen. In doing this he breaks his trust with Author and has to bring his lady lover to prove that she is as beautiful as he climes, but also breaks his troth with his lady lover that states he would never tell anyone about their relationship. Which is displayed, as sense lanval could not keep his word about his lady lover then he is not virtuous and that only if he can keep his word that his lady lover is as beautiful as he claims then he is acting virtuously. Lanval has to be courteous to Queen Guinevere even though she is married but he also promised troth to his lady, he had to break his troth to prevent him form breaking another. While he has to prove his words about is lady lover are true to be considered being