The Table

It’s the dead of night, not a single sound to be heard. Then there’s a bloodcurdling cry that shatters the silence. “A DRAGON!” is all that is heard besides the terrifying screams and desperate cries for help. She charges out of the palace on her trusty steed, Xavier into the night’s dark deception. With a family heirloom, a very powerful sword. Yes, it‘s Excalibur. The legendary, most powerful sword in the world. Even ten knights could not compare to his power. “Hurry it up Guin! Time’s a…

courageous, courteous, show great amounts of honor, as well as fight for justice, and be ready to help the weak to be seen as “the ideal knight.” One example of a legend where this code of chivalry is exposed is King Arthur and the Knights of the round table. In these stories and legends of the great King Arthur, there are three primary of elements exposed. One element of chivalry exposed in King Arthur stories is honor. One’s reputation and honor is of high priority…

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…

In the Pearl poet’s Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, an epic talk emerges to reveal a man’s journey of honesty, morals, and honor. Sir Gawain accepts a challenge in place of his uncle King Arthur, with hidden tests. The tests that we’re giving to him is when he was forced when the Green Knight gave him the challenge. Then there was the test when lord Bertilak wife tried to seduce him. The other one was when Gawain keeping his word and actually going through with the challenge. At the Green…

Characterization of Sir Gawain The success of a literary work is directly related to the strength of the protagonist. Some stories characterize the hero so strongly that the tale remains relevant to humankind for centuries. The poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, author unknown, is an excellent example of this circumstance. Sir Gawain can be characterized in many different ways, and the believability of his character makes the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” very relevant today. The…

volunteer until Sir Gawain said, “I am the weakest if I lost my life it would be the least of any” (128-9). Sir Gawain, who is a good knight for King Arthur, showed that he was humble and did not boast about himself being one of the knights of the Round Table. By saying how his life didn’t matter as much as the others, yet he was the only one brave enough to accept the offer from the Green Knight. This challenge of chopping the head of off the Green Knight, but then the Knight getting to do the…

Finding Morals Among the Knights Chivalry, the elite code of conduct followed by the Knights of the Round Table, provides a framework of core values and qualities. Taking place during medieval times, the story, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, chronicles one of King Arthur’s most remarkable knights, Sir Gawain. His personal development evolves as he accepts challenges and departs on a grueling journey with the mission of achieving a higher status in the kingdom. Along the way, Sir Gawain faces…

The murmur of the crowd grew as the people flocked to the man who yelled, “Hear ye, hear ye, and take your chance at pulling the sword out of the stone!” The young knight walked up and easily pulled the sword from its stone encasement. Does this story sound familiar? King Arthur is one of the most recognizable stories in literary history and it all started with a sword in a stone. However, there have been many o Arthurian legends, and each has had their own take on the renowned tale. For…

and proved himself a coward. It is now clear that our protagonist is indeed flawed, this would later come back to bite him. When he faces the Green Knight, Gawain flinches before the blow. This furthers his disgrace, the brave knight of Arthur's table has been proved a coward. The Green Knight only gives Gawain s slight cut on the neck, a scar to remind him of his eror. It is now revealed that the Green Knight is in fact the lord of the castle where Gawain was tested. The lord challenges…

Another way the poem shows chivalry is the much of Christ and heros. The end of the poem ends with a list of heros and praising Christ (LitChart). Example of chivalry would be, “let me rise from this bench and stand with you there, to move from this table without giving offence, if there’s no objective from my lady the queen, I’ll take over for you before all the court (Wordpress).”…