Chivalry In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Translated By Burton Raffel

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Chivalry is a code of honor, a code of morals that every knight must follow, especially Sir Gawain as a knight of the round table. He follows this code right off the bat by offering himself in place of Arthur to the Green Knight. “Sir Gawain, the best of knights, accepts the challenge and chops off the head of the stranger,...” (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 89) In the excerpt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Burton Raffel there are many elements of the medieval code of chivalry by the actions of Gawain and the Green Knight in this Middle Ages romance tale.

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They shatter chivalry, their vice destroys virtue.” (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 95)(Jashley80). Gawain is upset here because he betrayed his code. The code he has always followed, the code of chivalry. The lord of the castle and Gawain made an agreement, for everything the lord brings back from hunting Gawain must return to him what he received that day. Gawain received one kiss from the lord's wife the first day. He returned it to the lord. The second day he got two kisses and he returned those to the lord. On the third day, he got 3 kisses and a green girdle. He only returned the kisses to the lord. On the fourth day, Gawain leaves the castle to find the knight and it turns out the Green Knight is the lord of the castle. The Green Knight calls Gawain out on his breaking of the code and Gawain was ashamed for not returning all the items he received from the lord's wife. The code is about honor and truth. Gawain lied. He broke the code and feels as though he lost his honor. The Green Knight goes on to say “The damage you did me is cured,it's gone. You stand confessed so clean, you took such plain penance at the point of my ax, that I hold you cleansed, as pure in heart as if from your birth to this day you'd never sinned!” (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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