Character Analysis of `Sir Gawain and the Green Knight`
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One of the most important components of any literary work is the central character. To make literature truly great is to have a character whose personality is believable. There are three basic ways a character`s personality can be revealed to a reader:
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In the first segment of the poem, we are introduced to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It is Christmas time in King Arthur`s court when the Green Knight enters the dining hall. He is very large and completely green. He challenges the court to a beheading game in which one of the knights must cut off the Green Knight`s head and then in 12 months and a day find the Green Knight and allow the Green Knight to chop his head off. When none of the knights of the Round Table take up his challenge, he taunts them and says, "What, is this Arthur`s house.../Whose fame so fair in far realms and wide?/Where is now your arrogance and awesome deeds./Your valor and your victories and your vaunting words?/.../Overwhelmed with a word of one man`s speech./For all cower and quake, and no cut felt!"(208-209). This angers Arthur and he gets up to take the challenge. This is the point where we see the first glimpse of Sir Gawain`s character. Sir Gawain asks Arthur to allow him to take the challenge. We see how Sir Gawain feels about himself when he gives his reasons for being allowed to take the challenge. Sir Gawain tells Arthur that he is "..the weakest, well I know, and wit feeblest;/And the loss of my life will be the least of any" (208).
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
