What symbolic meaning does the color green have in the story?
2006-10-24 06:00:02 · 5 answers · asked by Gus O 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Green = birth, life, spring, etc.
2006-10-24 06:08:28 · answer #1 · answered by jcboyle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's around table, accepts a project from a mysterious warrior who's thoroughly green. The "green Knight" provides to allow every physique to strike him together with his awl if he will take a return blow in a twelve months and an afternoon. Gawain accepts the project, and beheads him in one blow, basically to have the Knight upward thrust up, %. up his head, and remind Gawain to fulfill him on the appointed time. Gawain's conflict to fulfill the appointment, and the adventures in touch, reason this artwork to be labeled as an Arthurian tale concerning subject concerns of chivalry and loyalty.
2016-11-25 02:15:11 · answer #2 · answered by kocaker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's also interesting that this story happens around two Christmases, (the knight was as green as the holly branch he carried,) and is largely a telling of Sir Gawain's moral journey. Rebirth, certainly, with strong Christian overtones.
2006-10-24 08:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by amicietta 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as I've ever read there really is no special significance to the color, that's just the color the knight is.
2006-10-24 06:11:50 · answer #4 · answered by NYC_grl_2004 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what does green ever symbolize in books? birth or rebirth. if you're into interpretation check a dictionary of symbols.
2006-10-24 06:20:30 · answer #5 · answered by Tom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋