Throughout the hero’s journey man undergoes trials that test their abilities, strengths and weaknesses. Every challenge begins to aid the character in personal growth through the story. In Dante's Inferno, Dante bears all nine levels of hell and withstands the horrors and terrors of each contrapasso and what each of the layers have in store for him. Similarly, in the poem Beowulf and Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, both Beowulf and Sir Gawain endure brutal battles and both enter ordeals that result as a lesson learned . For all three characters this is their evolution from personal limitations to unrealized potential. In the beginning Dante is in the gloomy forest, lost and alone in the abyss and Virgil approaches him and invites him into the depths of hell to explore down. In many …show more content…
Sir Gawain agrees to this challenge and slices the Green Knight's head off his body. The Knight, still alive grabs ahold of his head and goes on his horse and nonchalantly gallops away. A year later Sir Gawain prepares to leave and on his way he comes upon a castle and he strikes a deal with the man of the house. The owner of the castle, Bertilak, tells his wife that whatever she may give to Sir Gawain then he must give it to him. The wife gives Gawain a green scarf and told him it would help him when he meets the Knight and asked him to not tell or give it to her husband. Later he met the Green Knight and plans for his death by decapitation. The Green Knight knows of the Green scarf and what his wife asked of him. The knight barley scraps Gawain and then he confronts him about the scarf. Sir Gawain learns that the husband was actually the Green Knight, and he was taught the importance of integrity and