English 1027F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wimple, Inferiority Complex
22 Oct 2018
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183 - green knight has a bushy beard, knights are smooth-faced. Green knight is older, has more experience, advantage falls to him because of his worldly experience. Smooth-faced knights - put more effort into their appearance, nobility, etc; gk has more of an animalistic appearance. Knights are stone-still, silent not a lot of response from them when green knight comes in and begins issuing challenges. Knights have become almost too polite, over-courteous - are paralyzed by becoming over-civilized. Camelot is the highest form of nobility - seem to have forgotten their natural masculinity. Green knight"s challenge tests gawain"s bravery, honour, etc. to start fulfilling all of the energetic qualities we see in the green knight. All of the people in the castle define the knights with courtesy and civilization. Sugar-coating feelings and opinions - censorship of thoughts. Pushing behaviours - censorship of desires and actions.
