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    Question: Think about Gawain's role in both stories. In which story does he prove to be a better, more courageous knight?  Why? In both stories, Le Morte d’Arthur written by Sir Thomas Malory and “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” written by the Pearl Poet, Gawain shows that he is a courageous knight. But, in Le Morte d’Arthur, Gawain proves to be a better, more courageous knight in many ways. This story tells the tale of how Sir Gawain did not want his people to become a laughingstock if he accepted

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    stories, ranging from Layaman’s Brut to a drastically evolved incarnation of Arthur in T.H. White’s rendition of the Arthur tale. However, in the relatively short time span between the creation of Layaman’s Brut, The Alliterative Morte Arthur and the Malory’s Morte D’Arthur we can already see the seeds of change taking place, as Arthur’s character is injected with more emotional dimension, and the circumstances that befall him are depicted in varying levels of tragic light. Throughout much of

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    great amount of power, and naturally rules his domain with an iron fist in literature. In the two works, Le Morte d'Arthur and First Knight see two different versions of how king Arthur is portrayed. Yet the honor and respect that a king should have remains undisturbed, much like how both are products of their time. First Knight is told as a modern retelling of the legend and Le Morte d'Arthur is a minorly altered, much older work. While the depictions of king Arthur are seen as the paramount backbone

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    and was known as the Romantic Period. This period consisted of a literary movement which produced many artistic works that were thought to have a historical basis. Two of these works are Le Morte D’Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory, and The Lady of Shalott, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Although the poems Le Morte D’Arthur and The Lady of Shalott convey differences in chivalric codes, they share similarities in the disheartening language used to project a tragedy as well as the foreshadowing of death from predestined

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    Based on women in Wife of Bath and Le Morte D’Arthur, there are multiple similarities and differences that each of the women show in both stories. Both women in the Wife of Bath and Le Morte D’Arthur have their own reasons on how they tend to live the remainder of their lives. The woman in the Wife of Bath loves sex. According to shmoop.com The Wife of Bath, “she was a nicely-dressed, largish woman with gap teeth and a hat as big as a boat. We heard hints that

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    The Anglo-Saxons took examples from the epic hero of Beowulf. Knights during King Arthur’s rule lasted by the code of Chivalry. Lessons from this honorable code can be extracted from the text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as well as from Morte D’Arthur. Each of these memorable pieces of literature show examples of the code of chivalry. The three aspects of chivalry are courage, honor, and self-control. To begin, the first form of chivalry can be clearly found in both texts and portrays courage

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    differences such as in Morte d'Arthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In both stories, the author's use the code of chivalry and fantasy, but one author decides to let King Arthur die and the other does not. In the stories Morte d’Arthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the use of the code of chivalry is used on the knights Lancelot and Sir Gawain. In Morte d'Arthur, Lancelot breaks the code of chivalry because he is not honest when King Arthur

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    was known as the Romantic Period. This period consisted of a literary movement which produced many artistic works that were thought to have a historical basis. Two of these works were Le Morte d’Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory, and “The Lady of Shalott,” by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Although the works Le Morte d’Arthur and “The Lady of Shalott” convey differences in chivalric codes, they share similarities in the view of death through the disheartening language used to project a tragedy as well as the foreshadowing

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    similar ways, mostly based on the legend of King Arthur. In Le Morte D’Arthur, various qualities of heroes and villains are displayed throughout the tale; consequently, having an influence on many other characters throughout history. The main characteristic of heroes in the legend of King Arthur was that they were deemed as very honorable. Each was constantly regarded a great amount of respect to the royalty. In one scene of Le Morte D’Arthur, Sir Gawain is on his deathbed and is discussing with King

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    these two stories, "Sir Gawain and a The Green Knight" and "Le Morte d'Arthur", there is Medieval Romance, the main characters are loyal, and they have chivalry. Throughout both stories both of the main characters are on an adventure to find something or someone. In "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Sir Gawain is on an adventure to find the Green Knight at the Green Chapel in one year and a day like he had promised. In "Le Morte d'Arthur", everyday for six months Sir Gawain rode into the city and

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