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the poem begins with a green knight entering King Arthur’s feast with a challenge, he states “where’s the fortitude and fearlessness you’re so famous for? And the breathtaking bravery and the big-mouth bragging? The towering reputation of the Round Table, skittled and scuppered by a stranger- what a scandal! You flap and you flinch and I’ve not raised a finger!” (311-315). This Green Knight- also known…

The literature piece of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight revolves around medieval knights with their chivalric values as well as their romantic ideologies of courtly love. The era in which this story took place was in a male-dominated culture, where the men were supposed to be brave, honorable and loyal on an everyday basis. The women of this era were subordinate and therefore followed and served these same men. Although the women were to serve the superior man they would also use their womanly…

offer his “wholehearted help and counsel.” (I.278.21) fueled his drive to grow his pride, which ultimately led to his downfall. Comparable to Beowulf, Sir Gawain is consumed with pride when the Green Knight casts an appearance at King Arthur’s round table. The Green Knight proposes that "Anyone with the nerve to try it, take this axe, here...and give me a well-aimed stroke, and agree to accept another in payment, when my turn arrives, but not now: a year and a day will be time enough. So: is…

Sir Gawain is established as a noble hero represented by a pentangle; an interconnected five-pointed shape delineating his qualities in fives. He has perfect senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell (640). Further, his fingers are always perfect, which could be an elaboration of touch, but also denote dexterity (641). Sir Gawain is a faithful follower of the Christian religion, which is "founded in the five wounds/ Christ received on the cross" (642-643). When Sir Gawain is faced…

It is in the formidable frontier of the unknown that Don Quixote claims the true spirit of adventure can be found. Don Quixote had just embarked on his gallant quest when he decided to let his horse dictate his destiny, to chose his fate for him. “With this [Don Quixote] ... continued on his way, letting his horse take whatever path it chose, for he believed that therein lay the very essence of adventures” (1680). By letting his horse decide the path, Don Quixote was putting his fate in the…

girdle is a symbol of protection; however, when Gawain breaks his contract with the Green Knight, it becomes a symbol of personal shame. Once Gawain returns to King Arthur’s court, though, the girdle is adopted as a symbol for the Knights of the Round Table, making it a public symbol of the knights’ code. Despite this public absolution of Gawain’s sin, the knight’s personal shame never self-absolved.…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a four-part poem that follows Sir Gawain’s life that leads up to him being more than King Author’s nephew but a knight. Sir Gawain first step into this transformation was him not being afraid to chop off the Green Knight’s head which leads him to a train and began his search for the Green Knight so he can return the favor. Sir Gawain stumbles upon a castle that is not far from where his destination is and the host offers a room…

In a moment of confusion, Sir Gawain rises up to show he is a loyal, pious, and self-deprecating Knight of the Round Table. To began, the reader is introduced to Sir Gawain and recognizes his loyalty when he says, “Would you grant me the grace… to be gone from this bench and stand by you there” (Borroff l. 118). Evidently, Sir Gawain takes King Arthur’s life out of harm’s…

Agreements between two people are made every day with fickle promises that are broken within a moment’s notice, however, when one speaks about agreements made in texts, it seems as if those agreements hold the power to alter the course of an entire story or universe and hold deep consequences if broken. Within medieval texts, these agreements are the basis of many great adventures and quests made by heroes of the brave and bold in order to establish a theme of heroism and justice. In “The Wife…

A Pentacle is very similar to a pentagram. A pentagram is a five-pointed star, each point representing one of the five elements, earth, air, fire, water, and akasha also known as spirit. A pentacle is a pentagram encased in another shape; most commonly a circle but it can any shape, a pentagon, a triangle, or another star. The word its self is broken down into two pieces, “penta” meaning five sided, and “cle” referencing the circle. It is a symbol cloaked in history and dripping with meaning.…