Sir Gawain And The Lay Of The Werewolf Analysis

Since the beginning of human society, woman have always been considered a subordinate sex, as men have been associated with the upper hand of power in a household. Even today, after decades of for equal rights, many women still play and are viewed as this stereotypical role, and as a result woman have relentlessly attempted to strive away from it. In innumerable medieval texts, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Lay of the Werewolf, the prestigious women withhold their power in order to disguise the ultimate potential their power has. The Middle English texts, Sir Gawain and the Green Night and The Lay of the Werewolf display the vindictive persona woman possess as they attempt to defy the image society has set. It is in a woman’s nature to play a role in her household where she acts as if she obeys her husband in every manner, which ultimately results with it overshadowing her authentic emotions she has toward a particular event, leading her to take drastic measures. In the short story The Lay of the Werewolf, when Bisclavaret 's wife is alerted on the true accounts of her husband’s weekly disappearance her “her face became flushed with fear” as she was “greatly alarmed by the story” which led her to begin to “consider various means of parting from him, as she no longer wished to lie with him” (De France 3). Bisclavaret 's wife …show more content…
However, as they are stories, the actions from the woman are slightly over exaggerated. Furthermore, the stories also highlight the inequality in the preconceived notions societies have of woman, especially in the power they truly hold, and the amount of destruction that can result of slight judgment. Although both Sir Gawain and the Green Night and The Lay of the Werewolf were written over 400 years ago, similar ideas of woman are still around today, despite the amount of progress woman have made to move away from