Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a medieval romance tale that brings the reader along with Gawain for the journey to his death bed. In this story, Sir Gawain will be given obstacles that he will be forced to overcome while on his journey to go find the Green Knight. It all came about when Sir Gawain took the opportunity to play a game with the Green Knight. This game consisted of giving anyone who thought they were brave enough, a chance to cut off the Knight’s head with his own axe. During this game, Gawain took charge and made one of many courageous decisions that he will continue to make throughout his journey. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has become a well known tale that consists of many versions including Marie Borroff’s and Simon Armitage’s.
After reading both Marie Borroff’s and Simon Armitage’s styles of writing in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I can easily say that Simon’s style of writing was much clearer to me. English Literature had always been a difficult part area for me in an English course, Shakespeare most of all. Like Shakespeare, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight shared similar contexts that were hard for me to depict what was going on.
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During the beheading scene, Borroff proclaimed in line 2245-22467, “And we have met in these mountains, remote form all eyes: there is none here to halt us or hinder our sport…”. Before reading Simon’s description of the beheading scene, I had no idea what Borroff was talking about when she said “there is none here to halt us or hinder our sport”. After reading Simon’s passage, I was able figure out that the Green Knight meant that now that they are alone, there is no one who can stop whatever is bound to happen. I think in English it is important to be able to understand what is going on without having to looking up words that do not make