How Did Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Cause Conflict?

No one is perfect in this beautiful world billions of people call home. People lie, do what’s wrong instead of what is right, and hide things from loved ones. People never want to disappoint the ones that mean the most to them such as family and/or friends. “There can be no redemption without fault, just as one is unable to return from exile without first being sent into one.” Humankind cannot learn or gain without falling down and having to face conflict. Many writers have written stories, much like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or like The Odyssey that prove this message to people all over the world, of any race, and of any age. People are prone to make a mistake sooner or later in their lives. The world throws many challenges at people throughout their lives, but without struggle, one could not prevail. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Gawain tries to blame his imperfectness on

The Green Knight gave Sir Gawain the option of any blow with the same one to happen in a years time. Sir Gawain thought he could outwit the Green Knight, he thought he found a loophole when he could cut the knight’s head off. “The cleanness of the strike cleaved the spinal cord and parted the fat and the flesh so far that the bright steel blade to a bite from the floor.” (Armitage p49). This was a mistake though. The Green Knight was still alive and now in a years time, the same thing would happen to Sir Gawain. The importance of this is that one should not take advantage of others and should not try to get one over and someone. People nowadays do it all the time. Kids do this to their parents and what happens usually? They get caught and get in trouble. If they would have just been up front in the first place, the consequences wouldn’t be half as bad. Do things correctly the first time and learn from the