Monty Python is a great comedic film filled with hilarious satire mocking medieval literature. It features parodies of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight using sarcasm, irony, and ridicule. It may be humorous or include dark comedy. This was usually the case when they were making fun of the films different themes such as chivalry, religion, the knightly code, and the noble quest. Monty Python portrays similar themes when comparing the film to the medieval stories Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail as well as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight indicates the complicated nature of chastity. While Sir Galahad is on his quest to find the Holy Grail, he arrives at the castle anthrax where he thought he had seen the Grail. In the castle, however, there is no Grail but there are many women who try to seduce him. He is able to resist the temptation at first, but begins to give up his chastity before Sir Lancelot comes to save him.
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Christian Knights lived by the chivalric code in order to gain honor, but sometimes it was not possible- even for the purest of knights to constantly stick to these conventions of courtesy, kindness, loyalty, chivalry, and skill. Monty Python and the Holy Grail manage to take it a step further when they create a God who does not want people to worship him and ask for forgiveness. Without the main idea being exemplary, how can Arthur and his knights have faith in a God who does not want