Theme Of Integrity In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

The first two seduction scenes creates tension between chastity and pledge-fulfilling towards the Lady’s advances. The last seduction scene, Lady Bertilak plays on his courage with the temptation of a chance of survival with a green girdle which is said to be able to protect him. Sir Gawain is only seen to compromise on his honour as he did not give the green girdle to Sir Bertilak as promised that they will exchange what they get for the day. Sir Gawain’s ideals that he has to hold up to as a knight has broken down as he realised that they contradicted with one another. Sir Gawain’s action of accepting the girdle suggest his desire to live.

In the book Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Gawain must take on a journy to find the grren knight. His journy woulod have many challenges whihc came with obsticales he would have to face.Throughout the story the reader could come to a decison that Gawain is a likable character, even when and if he lies through omisson.Gawain can also teach the reader the importance of telling the truth although it may be difficult. Gawain omits the truth when he choose to take the green gridle frin the hosts wife and chooses not to mention it to the host himself. She claims the gridle will keep him from harm when he wears it, but Gawain soon realizes she was lying in part 4. Thus punishing Gawain for not mentioning the gridle and is punished by the hick of the third blow for his behavior.

May deceives January by justifying committing adultery and telling him that he “may be frequently deceived by [his eyesight]” (CT.p.387). By deceiving January, May is saving herself from being punished. Lady Bertilak deceives Gawain by giving him the green girdle and telling him to “conceal it well” (GGK line 1862). The Green Knight strikes Gawain’s three times, but only nicks Gawain’s neck once; demonstrating the consequence concealing the green girdle from Lord Bertilak. Gawain blames Lady Bertilak for deceiving him causing him to not adhere to the contract because “the wiles of a woman be wooed into sorrow, for so was Adam by one” (GGK line 2415-2416), implying that many great men in history have been deceived by women.

Chivalry Back in the medieval period, Chivalry was a set of rules that were to be followed by the Knights. The Chivalric Code was made up of many different ideas such as: honesty, forbearance, courtliness, humility, loyalty, sovereignty, and respect for women. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte d’Arthur, and King Arthur they follow these rules, which has some advantages and disadvantages. In which version do the characters best display chivalry? Which version’s characters are the most admirable and why?

During the Medieval times chivalry was one of the most important characteristics a knight could display. Chivalry was viewed as a moral obligation that involved bravery, honor, respect, and gallantry. Knights were expected to uphold this code or face social consequences for any infractions, with punishments ranging from humiliation to termination of their knighthood. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” presents the struggles knights faced with honoring the chivalrous code at all times. Sir Gawain, while imperfect, exhibits qualities expected of knights and embodies the internal struggle between honoring the chivalrous code and giving into selfish desires.

Gawain was the one to agree to the Green Knight’s challenge, not a woman who told him to. He took on the lord’s bets, without the ladies saying anything to him. Gawain’s pride and misogyny showed that he could not complete, or even start a path to redemption. All in all, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight gave many fine examples of classic literature and the beauty of it. However, Gawain tried to redeem himself, but failed miserably.

While resting at the castle, he encounters the Lady of the Castle. Over time, she attempts to seduce him and he does his best to repel her efforts. “And so she tested him, pushed and probed, trying to tempt him, pretending love, and Gawain was so gracefully evasive that he seemed always polite, and nothing happened…”(page 104). Regrettably, while he was valiant in not letting her seduce him, he accepts the belt from her and keeps it from the king, whom he had a bargain with to give him whatever he had gotten from the day. Gawain later redeemed himself, when he and his guide were searching for the green knights home.

The foul fiend vex it” (line 389)! Sir Gawain states this because once the green knight revels himself as the king to Sir Gawain he feels ashamed that he took the green sash but indicates that it’s the king’s wife’s fault because she kept insisting that he take it. Although this is indeed true it was because the king put his wife to it to test Sir Gawain’s loyally and honesty but he still puts all the blame on the king’s wife. To summarize anyone who makes mistakes should not put the blame on someone else put rather themselves and learn from the

Consider how the theme of courage is treated in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a story that celebrates courage in a positive light in the majority of situations but we see that courage can have a negative impact on some of the characters in the story and it questions knighthood. Courage is an honourable term defined “The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery:” (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/courage) and for Gawain to be called this term defines him as a knight. His actions throughout the story makes it difficult to analyse how courage is treated in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. A lot of Gawain’s experiences shape the theme of courage in this story and can make it

Here, Lord Bertilak’s wife attempts to seduce Sir Gawain, yet he utilizes courtly love by refusing to succumb to a married woman. Instead, they exchange kisses and engage in intimate discourse. Another example was seen in lines 223-226, in which the lady of the castle states: “For the man who goes to battle in this green lace, / As long as he keeps it looped around him, / No man under Heaven can hurt him, whoever may try, / For nothing on earth, however uncanny, can kill him” (239). Within this quote,