I think what we see in this story is not really a change from Gawain alone, but from both him and the green knight. We see Gawain looking for repentance and the knight being nice enough to forgive him and share his life. A very different picture of the two people we saw at the beginning of the story. Both were ridden with their own personal issues, including the knight's mocking nature and Gawain's
cowardice and initial sins because of that. I've enjoyed the story quite a bit but am gonna go ahead and say that I'm not 100% if we are supposed to get a crazy clear moral or lesson from this. Maybe that's a problem with reading these types of stories. We should enjoy the writing style and the way it was related to its time of creation.
P.S. I commented on Alex's and Hannah's posts
I agree Ethan!!! I like that both characters were able to let go of their sinful ways.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying. It was a fun read but will i remeber this ten years from now? not really.
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