Essay Archive - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Test of One Knight's Chivalric Attributes
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Test of One Knight's Chivalric Attributes
Loyalty, courage, honor, purity, and courtesy are all attributes of a
knight that displays chivalry. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is truly a story
of the test of these attributes. In order to have a true test of these
attributes, there must first be a knight worthy of being tested, meaning that
the knight must possess chivalric attributes to begin with. Sir Gawain is self
admittedly not the best knight around. He says "I am the weakest, well I know,
and of wit feeblest....
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