Sir Gawain and the Green Knight III

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight III
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Part 4 The Green Chapel I. Time in
Gawain II. The tale concluded A. The three
strikes B. The green girdle C. The perfidy of
women D. Cross-dressing knights III. The
Christmas Connection IV. The Moral of the Story
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I. Time in Gawain Cyclic Troy, Rome,
Camelot Degenerative Fall from the golden
past Regenerative Christmas
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II. The tale concluded A. The three strikes
1. The agreement they made Gawain's keeping of
it the first day 2. The second day he again
kept his word 3. The third day Gawain's partial
failure in keeping the girdle
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B. The green girdle C. The perfidy of women
D. Cross-dressing knights
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III. The Christmas Connection
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IV. The Moral of the Story
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"In the earliest Arthurian stories, Sir Gawain
was the greatest of the Knights of the Round
Table. He was famed for his prowess at arms and,
above all, for his courtesy. ... Here Gawain is
the perfect knight he is so recognized by the
various characters in the story and, for all his
modesty, implicitly in his view of himself. To
the others his greatest qualities are his
knightly courtesy and his success in battle. To
Gawain these are important, but he seems to set
an even higher value on his courage and
integrity, the two central pillars of his
manhood. The story is concerned with the conflict
between his conception of himself and the
reality. He is not quite so brave or so honorable
as he thought he was, but he is still very brave,
very honorable. He cannot quite see this, but the
reader can. ...
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The character of Sir Gawain is relatively fixed
by tradition he cannot act very differently from
the way he does. In consequence, his character is
static--is, indeed, less interesting than that of
his adversary, the Green Knight. But it is for
other qualities than character interest that Sir
Gawain and The Green Knight is valued." (G. B.
Pace, 35)
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