Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight
Three Virtues or Concerns (Traps?)
- Truth:
“loyalty to God and faith in one’s God given nature and
proper role in the world.” Pledge as well as true
- Cleanliness:
free from taint of sinful love
- Courtesy:
The lady and Gawain have two different notions. Courtesy “includes
the art of love, but is a more general term referring to sophisticated
gentility—good manners and fine speech, for example—of the
cultural elite.”
Prior, Sandra Pierson. The
Pearl Poet Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994.
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