We see this in both "Beowulf" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". ... Sir Gawain too asks for permission before fighting the Green Knight. ... Sir Gawain does not accept the challenge of the Green Knight because of fear of invasion or because large numbers of people are being murdered, but rather because his own high society is being put into question. ... Her extreme assertiveness and seductiveness in this situation shows the women in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" as being very different than those of "Beowulf". ... Whereas Beowulf refuses the queens offer to make him king, Sir Gaw...

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