2007-06-20 14:52:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Sir Gawain embodies the hero in many ways in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain is always courteous. By courteous it is meant that he is noble, decent, eloquent, humble, and compassionate. These virtues are among those recognized in the medieval aristocratic Christian societies.
Courtesy signifies external cleanliness as well as inner purity. He is faced with trials in which only his better qualities serve him. By not judging others, and by applying moral lessons to himself and not to others, Sir Gawain's character becomes profoundly virtuous. When he returns from his trials, he makes the court take the green girdle as a mark of honor, although he himself regards it as a symbol of his loss of faith.
2007-06-20 16:02:21 · answer #1 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-06-20 15:02:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-06-20 15:00:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋