Comparison Of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

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In the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the author (aka Pearl Poet) arranges the story so that one scene has a correlating scenario with other scenes, thus tying the story together. In this story Sir Gawain rests at a lords castle for three days before he continues on to the Green Chapel where he is suppose to meet the Green Knight. Gawain is to meet the Green Knight there because he accepted the challenge for him to give a cut with an ax to the Green Knight and he would return the same to him at the Green Chapel. The lord of the castle that Gawain stays at is also known as the Green Knight, but does not reveal that to Gawain till he arrives at the Green Chapel and takes his part of the challenge. During those three days him and the Green Knight have many struggles. This essay will explore the three correlating relationships that happen between the three scenes of the lord’s hunt, Sir Gawain's bedroom, and the strokes of the Green Knight’s ax that he inflicts upon Sir Gawain.
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Hunting a fox is laborious and tiring because the fox is a very sly, cunning creature. The fox would trick the hounds that hunted him by crossing a river to get rid of his scent, or he would follow back the way he came and then jump and go a different direction so there was a dead-end. This trickery is basically what happens in Gawain’s bedroom. Using scheming and cunning, the woman manages to get three kisses, exactly what she wanted. Also, she pressed upon Gawain to take a magical girdle, which would make anyone who wears it invincible, thus having Gawain fail in his chivalry code. He also fails in his chivalry code when he takes the third stroke of the ax from the Green Knight. He fails because he was no longer courageous as a good knight should be and ran away after the Green Knight inflicted a little cut upon him. This was the most intense part of the story and it was the hardest for Gawain to

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