Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Setting Analysis

The story “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” has many different settings and locations that are intertwined in the confusing, but humorous story. It starts out at King Arthur’s kingdom, Camelot. There is a knight that rides in on a horse asking to seek the leader. “Where is he, he said, The Captain of the crowd” (Pearl-Poet 167.225). The knight then proceeds to talk about how he has a game and ask one of King Arthur’s knights to cut his head off in exchange in a year he gets to return the favor. There is no taker so Arthur is willing to do it himself before his nephew, Gawain, steps up and offers to take the challenge instead, “…I would come to your counsel before your noble court”(Pearl-Poet 169.347). This is where the different sets of location …show more content…
One of the biggest points that seemed to stick out was that Gawain was a noble knight to his uncle, King Arthur, while all the other knights were to scare to be a knight that actually protected the king. “ And tis that I have asked it, it ought to be mine…” (Pearl-Poet 170.360). One might say that Gawain was the best knight that was able to sit around King Arthur’s roundtable. Another major point that could be made by one reading the story of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is that the Knight who comes into King Arthur’s court is wearing nothing but green, and is green. “… a horseman and a horse should have such a hue, than green as the grass, and greener, it seemed, than green fused on gold more glorious by far” (Pearl-Poet 167.235) These two things are major key points that anyone who reads the story could see as they stick out to no end in through out the entire story. The final thing that is very clear to see is the change of locations as Gawain is traveling. “…the narrator builds readers' apprehension by presenting the journey to the green chapel…” (Wendy Clein 1). One could see that he really is a brave, strong, courageous knight because of how he travels, and that he is not afraid to travel alone. “He had no mate but his mount, over mountain and plain…” (Pearl-Poet …show more content…
Though at the time Gawain is at the castle you do not know that it is King Arthur’s sisters when he is staying there. This is because King Arthur’s sister asked her servant, Bertilak de Haudesert, to pretend that him and his wife were the ones that were in charge of the castle. “Bertilak de Hausdesert, this barony I hold. Through the might of Morgan le Faye, that lodges at my house…” (Pearl-Poet 211.2445). This certain location of the castle is made very realistic by how the author portrays the looks of the castle, talking about the moat that surrounds the castle, and the trees that make a path leading up to the draw bridge. “…the wood, of a wondrous dwelling, within a moat, on a mound, bright amid bough of many a tree…” (Pearl-Poet 178.765). The author talks about how the castle is “well-framed” (Pearl Poet 178.783), and how it looks as if it could survive through any harm that was brought its