Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Middle English romance poem written by
an anonymous West Midlands poet also credited with a lot of other poems written during
that time. The protagonist, Sir Gawain, survives two tests: a challenge, which he alone
without the assistance of King Arthur's knights accepts, to behead the fearsome Green
Knight and to let him retaliate a year later at the distant Green Chapel; and the temptation
to commit …
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…in which man lives his life. Tests and
challenges face man everyday, and to be forgiven of these is normal. This story will
always be remembered for its intricate poetry in the handling of Gawain, and can be used
as a standard in which one can judge himself. Gawain is a man, and men have forgivable
faults.
'Life is a Series of Tests and Challenges'
A critical analysis of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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