In literature there tend to be many stories where a hero goes on a journey to save his beloved home and become the hero that he/she wants to be, but only in a few of those stories does the hero truly find out what kind of hero he/she really is. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain gets thrust into several daunting tasks and challenges and gets pushed to his edge with trying to preserve his life and uphold the honor of Camelot.A number of archetypal situations occur in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that serve to promote Gawain's moral development. There appear to be three different types of conflicts in the Sir Gawain literature. The story has man vs. man where the hero or main character becomes forced to face a challenge put in front
