Sunday, February 8, 2009

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight part 3

Here we go one more time, moving on to part 3. In part 3 the author introduces the alternating hunting scenes that we discussed in class on Wednesday. The hunting scene and the bedroom scenes are parallel to one another, suggesting to what is already obvious, a woman's attempts to entrap an man. Let's explore that subject , a woman's attempt to entrap a man, doesn't that have a lot of relevance to today's society? The whole idea and concept of this attempt is based of the notation of being in control all the time, a woman's need to have control.
Now, with me being a female, I think the idea of a "trapping" a man is just stupid. But contrary to my own personal opinion a lot of women need that control to feel dominant and better about themselves, which later borders on the edge of having self-esteem issues. The queen in this story felt like she need to do just that to feel wanted and attractive, she was also lonely because her king was gone hunting and she like any other lonely woman needed the attention and affection of man and she went to find it in Gawain.
Ok,now back to the story, for the next three days the situation was intense for both Gawain and the hunters. I also understood from reading this story that there were a lot of parallels between the hunting scenes and the bedroom scene. The host considers his glory and the dangerous hunt in the same way that the Green Knight and Gawain considers their situation a game.
The boar hunt illustrates the one on one combat between the prey and the host, and it also shows so much that it wasn't a game.
I mean this part of the story just gets weird as hell.
The three bedroom scene also are weird as hell also, because they are keeping with the theme of this story as playing a game. The game though is that the lady is testing Gawain morals and sexuality as a person and more or less as man. She is waiting to see if he falls for her games and plays along with her. In some instances he becomes weak and kinda flirts back with her, but at the end she is basically playing the game with herself. As a result she gives a Gawain a green girdle and informs him to wear it, but basically she is trying to mark her territory in a way.
He is stupid and he takes the girdle and it breaks the agreement with the host that he had, I mean this story at this point is on the verge of being a Jerry Springer show, I mean it is just filled with lies and stuff, but oh well it is just a story..........

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