Right Round

everything, including education. Year-round schooling would be a way for students to make the best of schooling. Long summer vacations are causing children to lose knowledge of the year before that they need to know. Year-round school would prevent this loss. Even though year-round schooling causes administrators to burnout, it should be active in all schools because it eases overcrowding, it offers childcare year round, and it improves academic achievements. Year-round schooling has been…

the invading Saxons. Arthur achieved this through a fellowship of knights who were sworn to Arthur’s cause – as well as to Arthur’s noble precepts of respect, honor, duty, service, valor, courtesy, and righteousness. These were the Knights of the Round Table. These were the men who followed Arthur’s rule – based upon their communal belief in the Arthurian chivalric code – a chivalric code that existed long before the High Middle Ages ever conceived of such, or…

Heros and villains are the backbones of literature. From Polyphemus in the Odyssey to Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, villains create conflict, create for contrast, add drama and excitement to stories, and serve as the drivers of the plotline. In different eras of literature, villains take on different shapes and sizes, and serve different purposes. In Medieval Literature, the purpose of a villain is to act as a foil for the hero character. In doing so, the villain brings out the…

How often do we think about where our family traditions started? It could be something our parents created or something that has been going on for many years. Some of the things we do might be cultural or are rooted from our religion. Hospitality is a tradition that has been shared around the world in the past and present. Part of the medieval Christian faith was to be hospitable because it was important to welcome strangers into your home. Gift giving was also a big part of the middle ages…

The fate of one 's life comes from actions and choices made during life. If one did good things in their life, they will get rewarded for their good deeds and vice versa. There are many theories of what exactly fate is, but in this case the hero 's fate is already determined, there are obstacles and actions people have to go through shaping their fate being good or bad, at the end our fate will come true. Referring to Beowulf and Sir Gawain, their fate was already predetermined, especially if…

his journey, he faces many challenges, but he never loses his faith in God until it comes to live or death decision where he relies on magic. The poem is a classic chivalric ideology and the perfect example, with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table having those traits. Despite the fact that this is a chivalric poem the main focus is the test of faith. Where Sir Gawain’s faith, that is being tested by Lady Bertilak. She plays an important role in which she directly controls the…

Beowulf is a classical Old English epic poem that has everything an action packed story should have. There are monsters in the form of Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon. There are also heroes that throughout the epic distinguish themselves from the other characters through battle and companionship. One main trait presented throughout is leadership and the most important leader in this epic is Beowulf. Beowulf is a strong warrior that maintains peace for his people as long as he is their…

The obscure creator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight enlivens the character of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur 's court who spares the life of his lord by tolerating the test of the Green Knight. All through his enterprises in the story, Gawain finds, creates, and exhibits his own particular chivalric qualities. He commits a couple of errors along the way, however endeavors to settle to no end not as much as flawlessness in unwaveringness, fearlessness and civility. The chivalric code…

entered king Arthur's court, or otherwise known as the Green Knight(189). The protagonist exemplifies impulsiveness when the challenge is called upon king Arthur and the Green knight requests king Arthur to, “grant me this game which I ask for by right”(191). Because Gawain has the most loyalty for his lord he then volunteers himself out of…

The Green Knight shows up in Camelot and challenges one of the knights of the Round Table to a challenge. The Green Knight challenges one of the knights to cut off his head, and in one year the Knight will come back to take his shot at the contestant. No man steps up to the challenge, so King Arthur accepts the challenge. Just as…