The Hero In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

In any poem with a hero you can always bet that there will be a call to adventure. The hero will be called to task and he will have to go forth and save the day. Whether he has to save the town, save the girl, or prove his knighthood he will have to go through trials. The hero will have three challenges, mental, physical, and spiritual. In Sir Gawain and The Green
Knight, written by The Pearl Poet, Sir Gawain is called to task by The
Green Knight
At the start of the poem, King Arthur is eating dinner with all of his knights. They're drinking and eating no enjoying each other's company.
There's a sudden knock on the door and in walks in The Green Knight.
The Green Knight is in the mood to "play a game." He invites any knight to come and take …show more content…
The last gift that she offers him is a belt to put on under his clothes to make him "immortal". Gawain takes all of these things and is put back on his way.
After Gawain is sent off to go look for the green knight, he was walking through the woods when he stumbles across the chapel. He enters and is met by the Green Knight who is impressed by Gawain's commitment to his word. Gawain kneels over and gives the green knight his bare neck, just as the knight had done for him. As the green knight is about to take him swing Gawain flinches and the green knight is appalled by this and says "Thou art not that Gawain whom men aye deem so good, Who never waxed afraid, by mountain, or by vale, Now, ere thou feelest hurt, for fear thine heart doth fail— Such cowardice in such knight I never thought to know— I never flinched nor fled, when thou didst aim thy blow." The
Green knight then takes another blow but stops short and Gawain is confused because this time he didn't flinch and the green knight said he was doing just to see if he would flinch a second time. The third time The
Knight swings his axe he hits Gawain's neck but doesn't take off his head. The green belt that the temptress had given him had worked.