A Medieval Romance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Bertilak appears to be a seductress, when she is actually loyal to her husband and only testing Gawain on her husband’s behalf. Queen Guinevere is either a person, who inspires loyalty from Arthur’s knights, or strong dislikes, is it a faithless affair, it supposed to lead to the destruction of the Round Table. As for Morgan le Faye, she has the reputation of being Arthur’s rival, but in some parts they reconcile, and even leads him to his final resting place in Avalon.
The quotation that I seem very impressed was:
“As I heard it in hall, I shall hasten to tell anew.
As it was fashioned featly in tale do derring-do,
And linked in measures meetly by letters tried and true.” (31-36)

As I interpret this, “As it was fashioned fealty in tale do derring-do” as what he heard was a daring tale of loyalty and bravery. “And linked in measures meetly and true” means that the story’s words and description are “meetly letters,” things that are proper and appropriate: words that are ...

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This quote was also important:

“Gawain was glad to begin those games in hall,
But if the end be harsher, hold it no wonder,
For though men are merry in mind after much drink,
A year passes apace, and proves ever new:
First things and final conform but seldom. (495-499)

This passage from part two was brought to my attention; it describes the passage of time, an occurrence that the poet develops to highlight the necessary uncertainty of the natural world, including mankind. No matter what any man does, he will be touched and changed overtime. The poem resists the circular nature of a year, which “proves ever new,” to a linear nature of a human experience, which in Gawain’s ...

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