Women have been known to play a critical role in shaping the stability and direction of a society. This famous Arthurian story of the late 14th century popularly known as the beheading game is no different. The Green Knight is often interpreted as an allusion to Christ or a representation of the Green man of folklore in other quarters. The story is written in stanzas of alliterative verse, and each stanza ends in a rhyming wheel and Bob. It draws on Irish, Welsh, and English stories like in the French chivalry tradition. In the romance genre, this story is the best since it involves a hero who goes on a mission. Sir Gawain tests his prowess, and the story maintains its popularity to the current modern English through stage adaptations and films. The story describes how a knight of King Arthur and Sir Gawain accepted a challenge from a mysterious Green Knight. The Green Knight is considered to be challenging the Knights to strike him with his axe and in case he returns, he will blow in a year and a
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Postponement of the Virgin Mary against Morgan and Bernlaks’ wife in the story points out the conflict between spiritual love and courtly love. This conflicting love made him and other critics of the time to feel they have drastically weakened the religious values behind chivalry. The story warns that the aristocratic readers of traditional religious values who underlined the feudal system be upheld to avert the destruction of their way of life. In essence, it has a more wide-ranging and more serious criticism of chivalry than what has been noticed. The author reveals how Gawain's rely on chivalry’s outside substance and format the expense of the Christian religious original values from which it sprang. She demonstrated through the first order of knights, which were monastic ones such as who took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience (Neilson
Postponement of the Virgin Mary against Morgan and Bernlaks’ wife in the story points out the conflict between spiritual love and courtly love. This conflicting love made him and other critics of the time to feel they have drastically weakened the religious values behind chivalry. The story warns that the aristocratic readers of traditional religious values who underlined the feudal system be upheld to avert the destruction of their way of life. In essence, it has a more wide-ranging and more serious criticism of chivalry than what has been noticed. The author reveals how Gawain's rely on chivalry’s outside substance and format the expense of the Christian religious original values from which it sprang. She demonstrated through the first order of knights, which were monastic ones such as who took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience (Neilson