All throughout Medieval Romance Literature, it deals with stories about marvelous adventures or quests which a knight goes to display heroic qualities. These heroic qualities from the knights are what usually grab the reader’s attention, which is why so many Medieval Romance Literatures were written this way. Without them, most people would just stop reading because they want to read a story where some sort of adventure happens that normally would not happen in real life. What is the fun of reading a story that just talks about the daily adventures of a townsperson in medieval time period? In these Medieval Romance stories, the heroic qualities are often shown through some sort of chivalric code or behavior that the knight does throughout the story. This chivalry that the knight does is often associated as being a code of honor that the knight sets out to do involving military bravery, individual training, and service to others. In the poem Sir Gawain and the …show more content…
Sir Gawain states towards the King and everyone else at the feast that "[He] beseech, before all here, / That this melee may be mine" (341-342). Sir Gawain is showing chivalry to his King and his countrymen by giving his own life for the life of his King. He does this even though he clearly knows that he is by far the weakest and least intelligent among everyone there (354). He is being modest when he says that he is the weakest, which is very chivalric because most people would lie and say that they are pretty strong even though they know that they are far from. Sir Gawain is also being very brave when he stands in front of the Green Knight, even though he has never done anything heroic before that time. He is basically just throwing himself out there even though he has no idea what he got himself