What Is The Relationship Between Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
By analyzing “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” within the framework of the Ecocriticism theory, we hope to gain a more profound understanding of the relationship between man and nature in the French Arthurian literature. In the Anthropocene world of the Arthurian court, there was a defined line dividing the agrarian civilization and the natural world. However, Sir Gawain journeys beyond the border of his built environment into the realm of a supernatural wilderness. It is here that the boundary between the natural and unnatural become blurred. The classification of what is considered natural or unnatural loses definition as Sir Gawain undergoes his journey and builds his relationship with the Green Knight. Sir Gawain must wrestle with losing