Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Essay

Students are to have the following essay completed by tomorrow:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight-Essay 50pts

Examine the ideal of knighthood as presented in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In what ways is Gawain an ideal knight, and in what ways does he fail to live up to the ideal? In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, does the poet endorse the chivalric ideal or condemn it?



It will be collected at the beginning of the period.