Lady Berolik exterior shows that she wants |Gawain but this exterior is false as she is tricking him and leading him tio temptasion I
s our exterior what we are really like inside? Green knight outside appearance supernatural because of morgan le fay but inside he is human Berkolik is not who he seems
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Phsically inside and outside
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Why did the author spend so much space in what seems to be just action scenes?
why the author of the poem seems so involved in the outcome of the hunts
-Contrast Indoor is safe out doors is unsafe danger and safety
- would Gawain be safer out doors. Indoors he is being hunted out side he would be the predator
- Manning “He must become the not the prey but the hunter”
- Hunting/temptation scene shows two popular ways of entertaining a contempory reader. Outdoors hunting indoors love interest
- Gawains behaviour indoors can be seen to parrelel the hunbting scenes out doors.
- Shy – deer
- Aggressive - Boar
Sly – Fox fox loses his skin gawain needed to save his
The Rituals of behaviour are follwoed indoors and outdoors.
However outdoors associated with the wild and uncivilised. is often
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Conclusion
Arthur is built up as the most courtly and modest and the best line 26 and 85 gawain has the same blood and is of the same court when he reveals himself it is assumed that he too is bound by the same chivarly codes. His acceptence of the request and his persuit to receive his return blow show the lengths that he will go to uphold his name like arthur who was willing to chop off a mans head when his courage was questioned gawain goes to the green knights lair and is prepared to lose his life to uphold his game that even he calls stupid line 343 357 he admits that the game is foolish yet to uphold his persona he is willing to lose his life. This is the poet showing the foolish extremes that the chivalry code can lead to. Outside he will do anything to uphold his honour yet we know that this is not the mind of a proud mindless person as we are given an insight into his miond and we see that he is not infinately brave and he ha smany faults that other humans have. He has choosen Gawain to disgrace to prove the point about the appartent most honourable and chivaric court. He has disgraced gawain and not arthur as it would have been unpopular to show the weakness’s of a man who has been built up as flawless yet by choosen a man of the same court and the same blood as arthur he indirectly shows that Arthur too is very much a human and has many fears and flaws dispite his mythic reputation. We only ever see the outer appearance of arthur but his reluctance to acceptept the challenge at the begginging shows his weakness and his acceptance of the challenge also shows his blind defence of his honour. The gawain poet is showing that appearance and honour is everything to these men and they will persue the most foolish of things to uphold. Gawain is used as a vehicle to develop a further psycological insight into the issues and ideas hinted at in fitt I. A
Benson “Arthur and Gawain guard their fame as zealously as Roland and Alexander, but the nobility of their actions is comically undercut by the relative triviality of the virtue for which they are famed…”
Chivalry provides a valuable set of ideals toward which to strive, but a person must above all remain conscious of his or her own mortality and weakness.
The acceptance of the girdle shows that gawain has weakness and fear and like other humans falls for superstition out of desperation and hope for forces beyond his control.
