In the story Sir Gawain and the green knight, the character of Gawain was one of king Arthur knights. This knight to his perception was the most unqualified knight in comparison to the other knights, who were physically and mentally stronger than him. Although this mindset, Gawain was still put in a higher stand due the fact that he is blood related to King Arthur. Throughout the novel, Sir Gawain is in quest to find the green knight and his characters grows with this quest. Sir Gawain in this quest to find this mysterious green knight test many of his abilities such his bravery, honesty and integrity that at the end help him save his own life. In the beginning of the novel, the setting takes place at King Arthur’s court where the protagonist
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He was treated as high class person because of his relation with the great King Arthur. In this place Sir Gawain is introduced with the host and two other women that contrast each other. One of the women is the hosts’ wife and is young and very attracted in the eyes of Sir Gawain. The second women was old and her appearance was unattractive in comparison to the first women. The young women played a major role in Sir Gawain due to her seductive appearance and talk. In part three the hosts wife tries to seduce Sir Gawain to do whatever her sexual desires wanted but the protagonist stays strong and honest “The knight felt nervous; lying back he assumed the shape of sleep as she stole towards him with silent steps, then cast up the curtain and crept inside, then sat down softly at the side bed” (part 3, 752). Unlike other characters of ancient novels, Sir Gawain doesn’t let his masculine desire control him and influence his decisions. The young women also with not only using her body but with her words to try to trick Sir Gawain. The women tells Sir Gawain that she has possessed him with God’s grace and this is tricky do to the fact that the women is in a higher power. Any other knight would have probably failed and slept with the hosts’ wife but Sir Gawain stays strong to his honesty and value. She even goes to the point of questioning his title as a Knight and his expectations. But as just for courtesy Sir Gawain gives one simple kiss to the young women to prove that he’s the real
He was treated as high class person because of his relation with the great King Arthur. In this place Sir Gawain is introduced with the host and two other women that contrast each other. One of the women is the hosts’ wife and is young and very attracted in the eyes of Sir Gawain. The second women was old and her appearance was unattractive in comparison to the first women. The young women played a major role in Sir Gawain due to her seductive appearance and talk. In part three the hosts wife tries to seduce Sir Gawain to do whatever her sexual desires wanted but the protagonist stays strong and honest “The knight felt nervous; lying back he assumed the shape of sleep as she stole towards him with silent steps, then cast up the curtain and crept inside, then sat down softly at the side bed” (part 3, 752). Unlike other characters of ancient novels, Sir Gawain doesn’t let his masculine desire control him and influence his decisions. The young women also with not only using her body but with her words to try to trick Sir Gawain. The women tells Sir Gawain that she has possessed him with God’s grace and this is tricky do to the fact that the women is in a higher power. Any other knight would have probably failed and slept with the hosts’ wife but Sir Gawain stays strong to his honesty and value. She even goes to the point of questioning his title as a Knight and his expectations. But as just for courtesy Sir Gawain gives one simple kiss to the young women to prove that he’s the real