... complicated twists, redefinings and renamings, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" consistently develops the theme of chivalry. The author uses Camelot, the epitome of chivalric myth, to ground his story and thus to provide a backdrop for his questioning and probing of the meaning and purpose of the chivalric code. To evaluate the code, the author arranges a challenge in which the code is broken, and then allows three different characters, Arthur, standing for the Camelot Court and representing the insider, Gawain, the insider who went out," and Bertilak, the outsider to judge ... Gawain'...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... ). Before throwing the evil men into a hole and burying them with flaming sulfur, Merlin awakes those under the spell of the harps-men to find out that they were experiencing an out of body. It is clear that the accounts in this story have become the inspiration for the acts of hypnotism and manipulation performed by today's contemporary entertainment magicians. In the Arthurian romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," by James J. Wilhelm, the Green Knight provides an air of mysterious trickery so ... intriguing and beguiling, that modern magicians cannot help but ... ...

• Word Count: 2173
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate