English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pentagram, Roger Blench
28 Apr 2012
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He is the largest man alive! : he is a marvel to behold, and all men are taken aback at by his arrival, not dressed for battle, but come carrying a holly bouqet, carries a contrasting gruesome ax. Bursts into the hall filled with the beauty and deliciousness of the feast. The reader gets a sense of the knight as a savage, dramatic, and uncivilized force. The crowd is astounded at his stern voice stone-still they sat there in a swooning silence. (line 242-3) Line 283 states the conditions of the game. The response is silence, and the green knight begins to mock him. The knight is portrayed as very ambiguous. Blench - to draw back or shy away, as from fear; flinch. Gawain has set perfection as his ultimate goal. Imagery (when the knight is beheaded): grotesque. Associated with hierarchy of order, beauty, warmth, wealth, luxury. The diction of arthur stories/poems is often involved with french-originating words, emphasizing luxury.
