An Analysis of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
I. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I
Ed. Stephen Greenblatt and M. H. Abrams. New York: Norton, 2006. 162-213.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a romantic poem from the Middles Ages. It is the story of one of King Arthur’s knights, Sir Gawain, who enters a game with the mysterious Green Knight. The game is an exchange of strokes with an axe, but the Green Knight states that a “twelvemonth and a day shall pass” (line 297) between the first stroke and the second stroke. The Green Knight states that “I shall bide the first blow” (290), therefore allowing Sir Gawain the first stroke. Sir Gawain strikes the Green Knight’s neck, beheading him, but the Green Knight does not die. The Green Knight lives and only asks that Sir Gawain keep his word and in one year’s time accept the stroke that the Green Knight is owed. The Green Knight leaves King Arthur’s......

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