Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 7
Study Guide Questions for Stanzas 68-79
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Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Light vs. Darkness, Despair, Cowardice, Peace
Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
On the third day of hunting what animal did they then pursue?
Where is Gawain while the lord of the castle is hunting?
What emotion did Gawain experience when saw the lady once again at his bed?
What difficult choice did Gawain “must needs” pick between because the lady “pressed him so closely”?
What did the lady ask to receive from Gawain before she left him?
What token did the lady offer at first to Gawain by which to remember her?
What valuable quality did the lady tell Gawain the “green riband” possessed?
After accepting the green riband from the lady what did Gawain do next?
What did the lord of the castle and Gawain exchange this third time?
What promise did the lord of the castle say he would keep “with hearty good will”?
How weld did Sir Gawain sleep the night before he was to meet the Green Knight at the Green Chapel?
Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)
What did the poet mean by saying “great peril between them stood unless Mary for her knight should pray”? Why say this at this point in the text specifically?
Why did the lady assume Gawain must have some other lover?
Why did Gawain refuse to give the lady his glove or some other token?
Why did Gawain refuse the lady’s original offer of what she would give him?
Why did Gawain take the second token offered when he refused the first?
Why was Gwain “ne’er so gay as this” by the end of the 75th stanza?
Why was Gawain not able to sleep “soundly” when he had seeming been at peace that evenign before bed?
The three different days of the hunt have each had a different animal as the object of chase; the deer, the boar, and now the fox. How might these three different animals symbolize the three different interactions/discussions between Gawain and the lady?
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
Was Gawain justified in accepting the “green riband” from the lady? Why or why not? Make your case with sound reasoning.
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
Read Genesis 38. What connections, similarities, and dissimilarities could be made between this passage of Scripture and our present reading?
Read 2 Samuel 11. Compare and contrast this passage against what we’ve read in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight what are some points of commonality and what ought we to learn in light of those similarities?