The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

King Arthur: Sir Gawain & The Green Knight In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,

I feel like I have analyzed the character of Sir Gawain every time the opportunity arrises in this class and you are probably getting a little tired on critiquing my analysis over the same character. Though, relating to Arthurian concepts, it must have been “fate” or “destiny" that the Gawain character would be an option for me to analyze on this final. This sort of “fortune” to have a character that I feel I can give a clear and in-depth analysis over, just might make this final examination on an

in this way immediately identifies that person as a cowboy and associates them with characteristics of adventure and bravery. The same can be said for the medieval Knight. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Gawain’s armor is described in great detail by the author to emphasize the importance of it. When Sir Gawain is leaving to go face the Green Knight, he is described putting on, “the great pile of gilded war-gear glittered…complete with knee pieces, polished bright and connecting at the

because of something they have done” (website 3). However, the Wife of Bath’s tale deviates from its source material in that the knight from the Wife of Bath’s tale “gets into his predicament by raping a young maiden. In "Dame Ragnell," King Arthur is accused of giving Sir Gawain land that belongs to someone else, Gromer Somer Joure” (website 3). Chaucer chooses to change the crime that is described in the story because the crime of rape aligns more with the feminist theme of his tale than the confusion