Sir Gawain and Green Knight is a fiction written in medieval, which will lead the readers’ experience compounded of pleasure, excitement, edification, amusement and occasional bewilderment. As James R. Kreuzer believes, “Sir Gawain is the product of a society and a way of life vastly different from our own.” The literature is the symbol of culture and society; it reflects what the people think about in the age. Sir Gawain and Green Knight have included many elements, which are famous in the fiction
English poem, Beowulf and Middle Age poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight both exhibit a message to depend on God or be forsaken by drawing on mysticism and Christianity. Beowulf
far more intriguing and complex work. Symbols take the reader much deeper than the mere surface of the text and allow him or her to become immersed in interesting analogies and thought-provoking ideas. Though the green girdle is the most obvious symbol in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, it is also the most alluring; with its ever-changing theme, the girdle presents the biggest challenge to the Knight's Code of Chivalry. The Knight’s Code of Chivalry was put to test on a regular basis by men in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight starts out by taking the reader through time but then remains in a state of stasis at the court of King Arthur but is soon interrupted by the challenge of the romance adventure that pushes the story beyond Arthur’s court. The story of Sir Gawain starts out with the battle of Troy instead of with the main story of King Arthur. While the story begins with Troy and Aeneas, it leads to the story of Arthur and Camelot by showing the repetitive tale of empires rising and