LIT 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Kings Place, Courtly Love, Tangled
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Analysis of morgan le fay"s character in sir gawain and the green knight. Through the tale of a chivalric knight, honor-bound by metaphorical chains, the character. Morgan le fay reveals herself to be a boundary-crosser and mischief maker, the typical description of a trickster. With her goals to uproot and challenge authority by testing the pride and honor of king arthur"s knights and court, morgan le fay sets out a carefully laid trap for the knight, sir gawain. Through her schemes, she reveals the trickster-like nature within her character, and exposes the shaken virtue of the pride of a knight to negate the binary constructions of belief that him and arthur"s court so readily defend. To break down morgan le fay"s character into two words, one would use mary rook"s description of a trickster in resources for teaching the bedford anthology of world literature:
