Right Round

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…

Nowadays, games are played for enjoyment or competition, but during medieval times, games or tribulations were utilized as a way to test a person’s meter and were considered an expedient of regalement. In medieval times, the men who were most staunch and fought for the king were Knights. Achieving knighthood is an arduous task that requires years of training. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the author demonstrates the main aspect of Knighthood, which is the code of chivalry. This allegiance…

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…

or deciding between what is right and what is wrong is another way we can see war of the heart in these stories. In lines 2369-2455 of Sir Gawain we see his reaction to his lack of morality and how he is greatly ashamed of his actions. Lastly in The Wife of Bath prologue the wife of bath herself greatly struggles with her thoughts and feelings of her many husbands. She does everything in her power to convince the man she is talking to that what she is doing is right and that it’s okay if she…

Students can go on vacations throughout the year instead of waiting for summer break. Mary Brown is a middle-school teacher in Wake County, where they go to school for nine weeks with a three-week break between academic sessions, says she favors for year-round schooling because it “offers the kids a break from school when they need it. They didn’t have the bored glazed-over look of kids who have been in school for weeks on end with no breaks in sight”…

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…

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