So far in this class we have had a fair amount of interactions with nights and even moving into a new time period of literature we still see a knight or two in the works. In Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene we once again come in contact with a knight. This knight in this case is a young rather unexperienced Knight named Redcrosse. Within a few lines of the first canto we find out that Redcrosse is rather inexperienced. This contrast greatly from many of the knights we read about previously such as Gawain or Lancelot who were already seasoned knights by the time we got to their stories. I found Sir Gawain to be there easiest Knight to compare with Redcrosse because I could see many parallels in the story as well as differences. The most prominent parallel I saw between the story of Gawain and Redcrosse was both of them being deceived by a female villain who try to take advantage of the knight’s situations. In the case of Redcrosse the female villain is Duessa. Duessa takes advantage or Redcrosse’s situation by forts appearing as a young beautiful lady and by taking advantage of the fact that Redcrosse is under the impression that Una is…show more content… In Redcrosse he’s trying to prove himself a worthy knight, he’s trying to impress the Queen. In Sir Gawain, Gawain trying to prove his strength in the beginning of the tale ultimately backfires on him, by the Knight coming back to essentially kill Gawain. However, despite the knights being similar they are also rather different. In my eyes Redcrosse rather innocent when compared to Gawain, this may be due to the fact that Gawain has had more experience and more title in turn making Gawain prideful. The last big difference was that Redcrosse seems genuinely interested in doing the right thing when going on his quest, while Gawain is forced to go on his quest to meet the Green knight out of
