Similarities Between Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Chivalry

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“The Discussion of Chivalry”

The story of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight translated by Marie Borroff and Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, are great stories that shows what heroes are all about. The story Sir Gawain and The Green Knight translated by Marie Borroff, is about a man named Sir Gawain who takes the place of King Arthur so the green knight does not cut off his head. The one thing that the green knight requests is that he will be able to do the same thing back to the Sir Gawain. So Sir Gawain takes the offer and he cut off the knights head but it doesn’t kill him. From there Sir Gawain takes a trip and finds a castle a year later where he meets a lord. At the lord's place the lord sets up a game to see if he is

By having the green knight do this in his story it will show if Sir Gawain is true to his word and that he will be an honorable man. If Sir Gawain is not seen in a year but the knight he will be known to not to be true to his word and he is a dishonorable man. In the story Sir Gawain and The Green Knight they stated, “And you have followed me faithfully and found me bedtimes, and on the business between us we both are agreed: twelve months ago today you took what was yours.” The author stated this the story because they want to show how Sir Gawain followed through with the promise that they made to come back in a year. Another way that chivalry is shown in this story by having Sir Gawain meet the knight it shows that he has a lot of courage and that he would do anything to be seen as an honorable man. Also in the beginning when Sir Gawain agrees to go find the knight at his castle it shows chivalry because he has to be brave because he thinks that since he cut off the green knight's head he will do the same instead of playing games to see if he is actually very true to his word or that he will know how to follow the chivalric code. The last thing that shows chivalry in the story of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight is when he is tested on how he will treat his wife.This is shown when he is vary loyal to his wife. This is shown through chivalry because during the medieval century the knight are known to have to be loyal to the people that they know or to the lords or the noble women. In an article Edward stated, “Written in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, another poem that belongs to the so-called fourteenth-century "Alliterative Revival," Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, depicts the challenge brought to Camelot by a monstrous Green Knight, who is elaborately described as a hybrid