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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Throughout Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, there are many virtues as a knight that Sir Gawain displays. Of these traits, his bravery is the most prominent. In the beginning we are introduced to a celebration of the Christmastide in Camelot. This celebration consisted of the most honorable men in the land, which included Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew. Gawain’s first test in bravery began when the celebration was interrupted by a man who sat atop a green horse.…

Women’s role in society has drastically changed throughout human history. The uniqueness of each separate culture’s beliefs regarding women is something that differs and can often times be found in their literature. In the middle english story Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain, a knight of Arthur 's court in Camelot, must live up to a deal he struck with a Green Knight which brings about his inevitable death. Throughout this conflict, Gawain struggles with the ethics inforced by the…

In the third section of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the audience is swept through stories of the lord’s hunt and the attempted seduction of Gawain by the lord’s lady. What is the purpose of the detailed inclusion of the hunting scenes in the midst of Sir Gawain facing his seductress? Close analysis reveals that attention to the action of the hunt is crucial to our understanding of Gawain’s attempts not to endanger his religious morality, courtious reputation, and very life. Through…

In order to sit at this table, a knight would have to first prove his worthiness. At the opening of the story, King Arthur is feasting [in the courthouse] and proposes a game that he will not masticate his victuals until his auricular discerns an “outrageous fable,” (93). The author…

The stories of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf both tells the stories of two honorable and noble kings, whose bravery is put to the test when they have to overcome obstacles in order to succeed in returning a favor and keeping a promise. There are some similarities and some differences that could be analyzed from these stories due to the fact that they both have heroic reputations that they seem to own up to by the end of them. Although, along with the similarities are the…

Throughout early British literature the concept of war is a significant part of those first stories. The true definition of war is a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state. Although the true definition of war is seen as a physical act we also can see that it can happen internally in a person’s mind or within their emotions. War can also be infectious, it can sometimes creep into all parts of a person both internal and externally.…

Ladies, Love, and Lust? (Concept of Chivalry) Chivalry is a moral code that was used by knights many, many, many years ago. It was a thane or a retainer or for a lack of better words, a warrior code. There are two ways that chivalry can be displayed. One is through the individual. It requires a balanced soul which consists of honesty, integrity, courage, sacrifice, generosity, and humility. The second way is collective or communal. In the code of chivalry used by knights, women are highly…

The 14th century Arthurian romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” opens with a description of the fall of Troy and subsequent founding of Rome and Britain, introducing an idea the author revisits numerous times: the necessity of destruction to growth, death to life. The poem could, itself, be said to follow an overarching life cycle; it begins and ends in matching references to Brutus and is propelled by stanzas that feel cyclic in their rhyming five line closes. To be less abstract, however…

Qualities that Make or Break a Character Coming from ancient times, tales of extraordinary godlike heroes captivated the minds of the listeners. Heroes expatiated became more so of the mundane. This is evident in the life of David Balfour in the novel “Kidnapped.” Davie is but a young boy of seventeen who is orphaned and left with no inheritance, his parents being of common means acquired such inconsequential wealth. Yet Davie has extensive correlation with heroes of early legends.…

Chivalry was the moral code that the noblemen of the middle ages strived to follow. This code outlined how a knight should behave in battle and to a greater extent how they should act at home. Gawain and the Green Knight and Marie De France’s Lanval can both be read as explorations of chivalry. Both works present chivalry as an impossible ideal rather than a fact of medieval life. Lanval, Gawain, and Arthur’s court are all pillars of the chivalric ideal, in Marie De France’s Lanval Arthur’s…