Camelot

were all tales on how Sir Gawain, King Arthur and Lancelot showed their chivalry and duties to their God and their countries. In the poem Sir Gawain and The Green Knight King Arthur is having a Christmas dinner for his knights and the people of Camelot. During this is when the Green Knight shows up and proposes a game to see if any of the so called “greatest knights” would accept his challenge. This is where the main character Sir Gawain has his chance to prove himself to the other knights and…

Throughout Medieval times, women have been thought to be the cause of problems for men. Also, there are examples from the Bible, in which it is evident that this statement may be true. This thought is displayed in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written by Pearl Poet and translated by Jessie L. Weston. Although Sir Gawain survived the challenge, he feels that he has lost the battle with the Green Knight. He tells the Green Knight that his downfall and of all mankind’s problems can be blamed…

King of Britain, Leader of the Knights of the round table, and folk tale hero. King Arthur has been in many stories and is a huge part of British History. People mostly know him for pulling the legendary sword, Excalibur, from the stone that proved he was the one true king, but there are facts that people don't know. Where did King Arthur come from, who wrote the stories, was he even real? King Arthur has been in many stories that tell different parts of his life, but what are the true facts on…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an epic poem by an unknown author about a knight in Camelot who is given a challenge by a green man during the holidays in King Arthur’s court. This “Green Knight” challenges someone to accept his request of chopping his head off and a year later he will use the same axe to swing at their neck as well. Sir Gawain steps up to the challenge after King Arthur volunteers, showing great courage and saving his king. Gawain uses the green man’s axe and cleanly cuts…

In the novel’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll and “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” by Mark Twain the authors suggest that human nature dictates their characters tendency to force other to bend to their version of reality. The main characters applied their knowledge, values, and logic to the world around them through the their experiences they found in the new worlds they faced. In the novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” the main character, Alice, applies…

What is a curse? One is typically thought of as the opposite of a wish, or a wish of misery to fall upon someone. The Lady of Shalott is a lady who has spent her days alone, because of a rumor that a curse is on her. She works through the days without really living her life, only watching others do so. In a poem about her she says that “she heard a whisper say, a curse is on her” if she leaves so she spends her days secluded from others (Alfred, Lord Tennyson 38-39). In "The Lady of Shalott" by…

The identity of the Green Knight in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is a topic that has been discussed amongst scholars for decades. Throughout academia the Green Knight has been theorized as a remnant of cultural mythology such as the vegetation myth (Benson 62, Speirs, 225), a demon, wild man (Benson, 72), and even the devil. Among these popular scholars, Larry Benson connects the Green Knight to the Green Man and Wild Man stories, which explain the knight’s ambiguous chivalrous and…

winding river; and beyond it on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and turrets, the first I had ever seen out of a picture ‘Bridgeport?’ said I, pointing. ‘Camelot,’ said he” (Twain 20). 1. While Hank Morgan, also known as the Yankee, recounts his story of his adventures to the narrator, he reveals he finds out he is in Camelot when Sir Kay, a knight, reveals his whereabouts. 2. After an hour of walking with Sir Kay, Hank Morgan recalls the sight of a town in a valley near a river.…

stories by allowing the protagonist Hank Morgan to get within breathing distance of literary tropes then turning them on their head resulting in an interesting tale of what would happen if the manager of a weapons factory got teleported to 7th Century Camelot. This is done by parodying the characterization the topics of the novel in a way that still keeps the reader coming back for more. One of the main ways that Twain uses parody in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, is his…

Launcelot kills the brothers of Sir Gawain in an attempt to flee Gywnevere’s bedchambers (501). Because of this, Sir Gawain pushes King Arthur into fighting against Launcelot, even to the point of a civil war (505). This war brings about the fall of Camelot, and the death of many knights, including King Arthur and Sir Gawain himself (519). While dying, Gawain shows remorse for his actions, repenting “bitterly that [he] may not be reconciled to Sir Launcelot” and acknowledging that, had he not…