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    lives up to the description. Sir Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight exemplifies the ideal knight. Sir Gawain exemplifies the ideal knight because he demonstrates courage. First‚ he demonstrates courage before he departs from the castle. Sir Gawain’s courage first reveals itself when Sir Gawain offers himself up to challenge the Green Knight in King Arthur’s place and says‚ “’I beseech‚ before all here‚ / That this melee may be mine’” (lines 341-42).When Sir Gawain departs from King Arthur’s court

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    Medieval time period wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain is an Arthurian legend‚ a story about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table‚ centered on the protagonist Sir Gawain. In the poem‚ a Green Knight comes to challenge the king‚ but Gawain decides to go in place of the king. Gawain makes a deal with the Green Knight. If he can’t kill the Green Knight then the knight gets to try to kill Gawain in one year. Gawain fails to kill the Green Knight. Gawain leaves the castle in search

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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is without doubt one of the best known works of medieval English literature. Medieval England poetry was best known for its medieval romance‚ religious views‚ alliterative form and its chivalry nature. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the best works of medieval poetry because it criticizes the fact that chivalric courtesy often displaces true Christian ethics. Sir Gawain a character in the poem was known for his chivalry‚ honor‚ and Christian faith. Medieval

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    ideal Christian knight as defined by Sir Gawain and the Green Knight would have to live up to the code of “chivalry”. Although…“throughout Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Knights‚ more specifically‚ of the Round Table‚ are depicted as the heroic‚ noble‚ almost god-like protectors of Camelot.” (bukisa‚ 2008). Sir Gawain is highly religious. In the medieval times Part of a knight’s duty was to defend and love the Church and to have complete trust in God. Sir Gawain from the very beginning shows his loyalty

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    qualities enable Odysseus to survive all his dangerous adventures and to surmount all obstacles to return home safely and regain his old staus? = The outstanding qualities that I think Odysseus had were that he was his intelligence‚ his strength‚ and he was very caring. His best quality is that he is very intelligent. He is able to use his mind to find solutions to problems‚ outsmart people‚ and to just use his mind for many different problems. For example when the Cyclops asked Odysseus what his name

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    On New Years Day‚ Gawain puts on his armour and goes with the guide to find the green chapel. When the two get to the edge of the forest‚ the guide says he will not tell anyone if Gawain does not fulfill the quest and runs off. Gawain refuses‚ wanting to not be a coward. Eventually‚ he comes to a kind of crevice in a rock‚ visible through the tall grasses. He hears a weapon being sharpened‚ which confirms his thought that the location is the Green Chapel. Gawain calls‚ and the Green Knight comes

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    journey such as the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight entails. The poem focuses on one man that shows what it truly means to be a chivalrous knight. During medieval times being a chivalrous knight was a huge deal that came with a lot of responsibilities such as being loyal‚ honorable‚ brave‚ and courteous. All traits Sir Gawain‚ the “youngest knight of the Round Table” (Dunn)‚ has gained along this powerful poem. In Part one of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ Sir Gawain is portrayed as a self-deprecating

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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The virtues that Sir Gawain exemplifies are symbolic‚ like a shield for himself. The virtues that are exemplified the utmost are chivalry and honor. To commence‚ one of the virtues that is most exemplified is that of Chivalry. Towards the beginning‚ when Gawain travels from Camelot‚ he realizes that he must seek physical comfort in order to survive out in the wilderness. Gawain comes across a castle who ’s host gladly takes him in‚ within the time that he spends

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    Sir Gawain says that he laid aside all the pointed speeches that came out of Lady Bertilak’s mouth‚ “All the speches of specialte that sprange of her mouthe” (1778). This is because she has destroyed his masculinity with her words. She offered herself to him at first‚ and by rejecting her‚ he automatically began to walk the path towards femininity. Lady Bertilak has feminized Sir Gawain’s body‚ and in a way is preparing him to accept the girdle which she offers to him later on (Kinney 53). The girdle

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    Soldiers from all the different periods of time have faced the hardships of war. In history‚ there have been millions of troops. One of the soldiers to compare is Odysseus from Homer’s “The Odyssey. The other are soldiers from the second world war. In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ Odysseus experiences are similar to those of modern soldiers returning from war‚ such as the deaths of their fellow soldiers‚ the amount of time for which they left‚ and the ill treatment they faced when returning home. All soldiers

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