Divine Justice In 'Sir Gawain And The Green Knight'

In most ancient literature some sort of divine justice is used to punish people's acts in life. This is that case with Dante's Inferno, where the Author categorizes hell in 9 circles. Circle 9 being the lowest sins and punishments as the circles decrease. From the time this was written to now in days many things have changed, and things are not seen the same no more. Back then sins like greed and gluttony were ranked as high sins but now people would probably rank those very low with other things like murder way on top. Yet the basic structure set by Dante remains.

Grendel the antagonist character of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" would fall into the 7th circle of hell. He is a violent monster who terrorizes people, fitting the violence circle. Not only does he terrorize people but commits murders on a constant basis and harming everyone who comes in his way. Grendel was no regular murderer, he would kill people by the dozens without caring about anything. He enjoyed killing people and wanted people to fear him. In the book it talked about how in the first night he killed

The Green Knight ended being the host and judge for an honesty and integrity test of the round table knights for a game created by Morgan le Faye. In the book first, he appeared as the Green knight to challenge the Knights of the green table, to challenge one of the member to a bet, where Sir Gawain ended up being the volunteer. Later he appeared as the king of the castle who would help Sir Gawain find the Green Chapel and test his honesty. In other words, he was the villain of the story but also protagonists guide to victory. In today's society he would be seen as a fake person with two faces "a fraudulent person". According to Dante's inferno he would fall in to the 8th circle of hell where the "Frauds" pay for thissins. Because of his fraudulent identity I think that this is the sin that best fits