The Triwizard Tournament is a contest, held between the three wizarding schools’ champions in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which is meant to test the contestants’ intelligence, magical ability, and courage through the completion of three tasks, the last of which concerns locating the Triwizard Cup. Similarly, the Arthurian legend of The Quest for the Holy Grail tells of a quest for the Holy Grail, which can be described as a goblet or cup. The goal of this essay is to compare and…
In the Middle Ages, the chivalric code was created to control the violent tendencies of knights who used to fight in wars and establish an ideal model that all knights should follow. At the same time, the concept of Courtly Love was introduced to meet women’s taste in stories and further show knights loyalty and respect for women. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the protagonist Sir Gawain is a righteous knight who tries to fulfill both of these ideal concepts, but ends up failing his quest.…
Satire in Monty Python’s Holy Grail In the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a group of knights, led by King Arthur, go on a quest, given to them by God, to find the Holy Grail. After a little debate, they split up, going on their own way, but eventually find each other again, where they approached the Bridge of Death. Once getting past the guardian of the Bridge, King Arthur and Sir Bedevere the Wise find the Grail, just to have the police apprehend them. This movie is a significant,…
Harry didn’t do anything wrong, unlike one of the most famous innkeepers in the (relatively) modern day, Monsieur Thénardier from the musical Les Misérables. Monsieur Thénardier embodies everything that could and would go wrong if someone stayed at a bad inn. In his first song of the play, “Master of the House”, Monsieur Thénardier openly admits how awfully he treats the tenants of his inn. Some…
During the High Middle Ages there was an influx of expression through the means of literature, painting, and architecture that encompassed the religious Christian values along with the secular chivalric code. This flowering of the High Middle Ages, during the approximate years 1050-1300, is the direct result of the economic successes from agricultural and commercial advances that greatly benefitted all of the social classes. With such stimulation amongst European economy the feudal and manorial…
Lauren McMillan Professor Kelley World Literature 20 November 2015 Sir Gawain: A Medieval Hero The tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight belongs to the literary genre known as romance. In romance literary pieces, courtly love and chivalry are two idealized standards of behavior. Loyalty, courage, integrity, purity, and courtesy are all attributes of a knight that displays chivalry (Shmoop Editorial Team). Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew and a knight of the Round Table can be seen as an…
inspired to write by some of his loved ones, either at home or at school. Also, while exploring literature in a book “Le morte d’Arthur” written by Thomas Malory, he was motivated…
In the story Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Sir Gawain shows a lot of outstanding characteristics. Gawain has the reputation of being a great knight and an elegant lover. He takes pride in himself and his viewpoint of the five points of chivalry in every aspect of his life. Gawain is a capstone of humility, devotion, integrity, loyalty, and honesty. Although he is a man of many characteristics, his main characteristic is integrity. Sir Gawain shows integrity through being selfless, reliable,…
While Sir Thomas Malory presents the characteristics of supernatural events and a braver and noble knight,he also includes the characteristic of an ideal, unrealistic place in his medieval romantic tale Le Morte d’Arthur . An example is in “The Coronation of Arthur” is when Arthur is born in Camelot. Camelot is beautiful and near perfect and is where his father Uther Pendragon rules as king. This is also the place that Arthur rules as king when he is finally realized to be the rightful…
Plenty of our favorite classic tales are set in a mystical world where a noble character is tangled in conflict. Red riding hood gives us the quest of traveling across the forest while being wary of a talking wolf. However monotonous or maybe cliche, medieval romance literature does its best job at staying on point and keeping the reader engaged in the story. In Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, the author used the magical Green Knight in order to push Sir Gawain into the quest that will prove if…