Through careful comparison of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Saint Augustine's Confessions, this essay will seek an answer to these questions. ... Sir Gawain certainly did not lack this trait, and shows it on different levels throughout Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. ... If it was one of the underlying themes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, then in Saint Augustine's Confessions it was the focal point. ... It is these two volatile feelings that will be used to define the lives of Saint Augustine in the Confessions and Sir Gawain in the Green Knight, for lust and love will ...

• Word Count: 1952
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1559
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Beowulf fought for his King and his people, however, that changes and "in the later medieval romances, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the hero is no longer fighting for his people, but for his ideals" (Jokinen 1996). Gawain faces his curious encounter with the Green Knight and various temptations of by the lord's wife at the castle where he is staying. ... Heroism for Beowulf seems to be more physical in nature, where heroism of Gawain is of a more spiritual nature. ...

• Word Count: 2885
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate