ENG 2105 Lecture 8: ENG 1122A Lecture 8.docx
7 Oct 2013
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Midterm: identify (who, where, when, why, importance, e. g. Aeschere (hrothgar"s close friend: passages, where its from, what"s in it, how it"s related to the larger work, how it"s related to course material. Gawain behaves just as the animal the host is out hunting during the temptation scenes (deer, boar, fox). A deer is skittish and runs away when being hunted. You catch a fox by letting it outsmart itself. It is at the 3rd temptation that gawain gets caught. The outset here about what they are tempting gawain with and why is important. In this situation, she"s married and her husband is the one giving him room and board. Because she"s married, if he has sex with her, he is committing adultery, which is a sin. The betrayal of a lord (treason) is the same as the sort of the treachery being imposed upon gawain. They are tempting him to commit a betrayal that will upset arthur"s court.
