In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the way the poet depicts the importance of a knight's proper behavior towards a lady and the manner in which a knight should represent/ speak about himself suggests that the chivalric code according to which Gawain lives in is a representation not of the real world of the 14th century but of an idealized version of that world. ... The poet further displays the ideal of Gawain's behavior when Gawain is at Bertilak's castle. ... The poet uses Gawain to present an ideal chivalric world with the way Gawain represents/ speaks about himself. ... T...

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