The Arthurian legend revolves around the Code of Chivalry which was adhered to by the Knights of the Round Table – Honour, Honesty, Valour and Loyalty.

The Code Of Chivalry In King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table. “The code of chivalry emphasized bravery, military skill, generosity in victory, piety, and courtesy to women”(Hirsch).

Why do you think King Arthur allows Sir Gawain to take up the challenge? to give him the opportunity to show his braver and loyalty.

The Arthurian Legend is still widely popular in modern day because the story contains elements humans can personally associate with such as love, loyalty, temptation, and bravery. Audiences can relate to all of these, whether they can relate to personal experiences or the story is feeding one’s imagination.

In “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight” the lesson learned is honesty is the best policy, even if your life is on the line. Sir Gawain shows the nature of chivalry by stepping up and accepting the game challenge the Green Knight presents.

Explanation: Recall that in the story we are told that the morning of the first day, the woman sneaked into Gawain’s chambers and attempted to seduce him, before leaving she kisses him. Since it appears Sir Gawain kept letting her kiss him, indicates that he got seduced by her.

How would you describe Gawain when the Green Knight is first about to strike him? What does the Green Knight say brings him to Arthur’s court? The kiss. The Green Knight stops the first blow his ax.

The Green Knight forgives Sir Gawain because he know that he is truly remorseful for his dishonorable actions and that he only acted out of self preservation and not lust. She tempts Gawain into the kiss and convinces him to wear the “magic” girdle. Both these actions compromise the famous Arthurian code of Chivalry.

Now the lord proposes a bargain: he goes hunting every day, and he will give Gawain whatever he catches on the condition that Gawain give him whatever he may gain during the day.

The Green Knight says he didn’t kill him because overall, Gawain was the truest knight around. He is green because of the sorcery of Morgan le Fay, who sent the Green Knight to Camelot to frighten Guinevere and test Arthur’s knights. 22.

Sir Gawain is happy to see his blood because it means that he has withstood the Green Knight’s blow and survived.

What happens to Gawain when the Green Knight swings his ax the third time? Gawain hopes that the sash will protect him from the ax blow; ironically, he ends up being slightly wounded by the ax for accepting the sash. The Green Knight’s blade breaks the skin of Gawain’s neck, spilling a little blood. 19.

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What do Gawain and the lord of the castle agree to do for three days? Why does the Green Knight finally scrape Gawains neck on the third attempt? to punish Gawain for failing to uphold an agreement. Why does Gawain decide to keep this gift?

Did Gawain really fail the Green Knight by not revealing the secret of the green sash? If so, how severe a failure was it? Was the punishment proportionate to the failure? Yes, because a perfectly honorable knight would value honor above his own life.

List details in lines 1-23 that show the Green Knight as a larger-than-life figure? Richness in the appearance of both the knight and his horse, the description of his horse as “monstrous”, the statement that no man as mighty as the Green Knight has ever been known before. 2.

The lady might be trying to seduce Gawain because she finds him attractive or because she is testing his chivalric virtue. Also in lines 190-208, what might Gawain gain by resisting? By giving in, Gawain might gain pleasure and even love; by resisting, he might gain self-esteem and the respect of his host.

Why does Sir Gawain accept a sash? He wants to offer it to the Green Knight to end the bargain. He wants a token to prove where he was.

By twisting the terminology of courtly love, Lady Bertilak puts Gawain in a pickle: As a paragon of chivalry, Gawain will not sleep with her, but at the same time he must not seem to be insulting or rejecting her.

Why does Sir Gawain feel ashamed after his final confrontation with the Green Knight? He is ashamed because by keeping the sash, he violates the code of knighthood.

Gawain returns to Camelot wearing the green belt like a sash. The whole court rejoices to see him safe and hear his marvelous tale. Gawain explains that he will always wear the sash to remind him of his fault. The king and courtiers laugh about it and decided they will also wear green sashes for Gawain’s sake.

Gawain brings the axe down on the Green Knight, chopping his head off. Instead of dying, the Green Knight picks up his own head, turns it to face the court, and tells Gawain to meet him at the Green Chapel in a year and a day. Gawain leaves King Arthur’s court on All Saint’s Day in search of the Green Chapel.

You see, Gawain returns to King Arthur’s court all ashamed and sad that he’s failed a test of honor by withholding the green girdle from Sir Bertilak out of a desire to preserve his own life.

The Green Knight carries an axe, an obvious symbol of death and a green holly bob, which some scholars interpret as a symbol of fertility and hope. Likewise, Sir Gawain beheads the Green Knight and yet he still lives.

The Green Knight, a challenger who comes into King Arthur’s court, for an exchange of deathblows, is considered by most critics as fiendish or evil.

Here, the color green represents the love of life. At the end of the poem, Sir Gawain is to meet the green knight at the green chapel. In the end Gawain does not die at the hand of the green knight. The chapel that was meant for his death brought out a new meaning to the color green: life.

The Green Girdle After the Green Knight reveals his identity as the host, Gawain curses the girdle as representing cowardice and an excessive love of mortal life. He wears it from then on as a badge of his sinfulness.

The pentangle represents the five virtues of knights: friendship, generosity, chastity, courtesy, and piety.

The court of King Arthur is full of costumes and rituals. The prize piece of Gawain’s magnificent armor is a shield decorated with a five-pointed star, or pentangle. Each point of the pentangle stands for a list of virtues or wits, including the five joys of Mary and the five wounds of Christ.