To establish recognition and to feel virtuous amongst other people, various individuals would try to accomplish everything even if means to sacrifice a man’s life. Resembling to the sacrifice that those individuals would take to feel that virtue, they’re mind start to fill with ambiguity, feeling anguished. Those are the feelings readers get when they read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Julius Caesar.
Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination, and the defeat of the conspirators at the Battle of Philippi. In 1599, when the play was first performed, Queen Elizabeth I had sat on the throne for nearly forty years, enlarging her power at the expense of the aristocracy and the House of Commons. Sir Gawain and the Green knight is Arthurian romance by an unknown author. It portrays the medieval times in Britain set in Camelot, the court of the legendary King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Since sir Gawain story has an unknown date, is uncertain of the events that might had occurred during this time period. Both of this stories where written for the audience to see the inhumanity of people when it comes recognition and the betrayal of the ones who suppose they cared about, and the repentance after doing human mistakes during the early ages.
In Julius Caesar time period Romans thought of themselves as very religious individuals. William Shakespeare was able to introduce that by introducing it on Julius Caesar speech before his assassination for example. “I could be well moved if I were as you. If I could pray to move, prayers would move me.” He also showed the importance Romans g...
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... of mist. Streams foamed and splashed down the slopes around them, breaking white against the banks as they rushed downhill”. In the other hand in Julius Caesar, he sees Rome as a horrible place made by man that only causes corruption among people.
In Conclusion both stories show that as humans, we make mistakes and we fall into temptation, sacrificing the unnecessary, actually giving up on belongings that are worth keeping. Leaving only behind things that shouldn’t even be on an individual, for instances: selfishness, ambiguity, and repentance.
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The poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, tells of one knights struggle to uphold the code of chivalry. What makes a knight a noble knight? Why does this social standard force us to hold this individual to higher expectations? What should we think about Sir Gawain when he breaks his vows in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight? How does Sir Gawain and Arthur’s court pass the test of The Green Knight? This paper will argue that Sir Gawain, despite his mistakes, is the greatest knight because of his repentance and the lesson he learns when he encounters The Green Knight.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written in the fourteenth century by an anonymous poet who was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer. The story was originally written in a Northern dialect. It tells the story of Sir Gawain's first adventure as a knight.
An anonymous contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the 14th century. It was written in a Northern dialect and uses alliteration similar to the Anglo-Saxon form of poetry. Alliteration is characterized by the repetition of consonants and a sharp rhyme at the end of each section.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a fourteenth-century tale written by an anonymous poet, chronicles how Sir Gawain of King Arthur’s Round Table finds his virtue compromised. A noble and truthful knight, Gawain accepts the Green Knight’s challenge at Arthur’s New Years feast. On his way to the Green Chapel, Gawain takes shelter from the cold winter at Lord Bercilak’s castle. The lord makes an agreement with Gawain to exchange what they have one at the end of the day. During the three days that the lord is out hunting, his wife attempts to seduce Gawain. At the end of the story, it is revealed that Morgan le Faye has orchestrated the entire situation to disgrace the Knights of the Round Table by revealing that one of their best, Sir Gawain, is not perfect.
Though often extensive detail may be condemned as mere flowery language, in understanding Sir Gawain and the Green Knight one must make special emphasis on it. In color and imagery itself, the unknown author paints the very fibers of this work, allowing Sir Gawain to discern the nuances of ritualistic chivalry and truth. His quest after the Green Knight is as simple as ones quest toward himself. Through acute awareness of the physical world he encounters Gawain comes to an understanding of the world beyond chivalry, a connection to G-d, the source of truth. He learns, chivalry, like a machine, will always function properly, but in order to derive meaning from its product he must allow nature to affect him.
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In Gordon M. Shedd’s “Knight in Tarnished Armour: The Meaning of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, he argues that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is truly about the strength and weaknesses of human nature. One particularly interesting part of his argument asserts that Gawain’s humanity broke medieval romance tradition.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a story full of tests and inner challenges, was written by an unknown author somewhere in the late 14th century. The poem begins the same as it ends: with the mentioning of the fall of Troy. After the fall of Troy, the Trojan survivors ventured to Europe where each began a new kingdom. "Ticius to Tuscany, and towers raises, Langobard in Lombardy lays out homes, and far over the French Sea, Felix Brutus on many broad hills and high Britain he sets, most fair." (Norton p. 202) In the same lines in the original text, "And fer ouer the French flod Felix Brutus On mony bonkkes ful brode Bretayn he settez wyth wynne" Britain is described as a land that is settled "wyth wynne" or, with joy.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight fit in with the concept of a romance; it has all the elements that would make one consider the text as so. The tale holds adventure, magic, a quest and an unexpected reality check that even those who are considered “perfect” are also just humans. The author used this story as a way of revealing faults in some of the aspects of knighthood through the use of intertwining chivalric duty with natural human acts; thus showing to be perfectly chivalrous would be inhuman.
Everyone loves a fable or film that involves both romance and action. Unless you prefer to call it a medieval romance story. Medieval romance has been a popular theme for hundreds of centuries. While different books and movies portray medieval romances in many different ways, they all seem to relate with a few specific characteristics; mystery, heroism, and chivalry. Two easily engaging medieval romance stories are Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and First Knight. Sir Two easily engaging medieval romance stories are Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and First Knight. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem about how a young knight that was once a nobody, took on a superficial quest from the perplexing Green Knight. He was being tested of his loyalty without any knowledge of it throughout the reading, and at the end is enlightened. First Knight, on the other hand, is a movie about an extremely brave knight named Lancelot, that goes through anything to show his true feelings about the Queen,
In William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, two speeches are given to the people of Rome about Caesar's death. In Act 3, Scene 2 of this play Brutus and Antony both try to sway the minds of the Romans toward their views. Brutus tried to make the people believe he killed Caesar for a noble cause. Antony tried to persuade the people that the conspirators committed an act of brutality toward Caesar and were traitors. The effectiveness and ineffectiveness of both Antony's and Brutus's speech to the people are conveyed through tone and rhetorical devices.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Trans. Brian Stone. The Middle Ages, Volume 1A. Eds. Christopher Baswell and Anne Howland Schotter. The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Fourth ed. Gen.eds David Damrosch, and Kevin J. H. Dettmar. New York: Pearson-Longman, 2010. 222-77. Print.
Allen, Janet. "Julius Caesar." Holt McDougal Literature. Orlando, FL: Holt McDougal/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. N. pag. Print.