'A Critical Analysis of the Arthurian Tale Sir Gawain and The Green Knight in the context of Literary Theory\r'

'This reputation is in the tradition of Arthurian stories intimately the subtitleary powerfulness Arthur and his Knights of the polish up defer. This is a allit agetive poem belong to the quixotic genre of Arthurian legends.The author is nameless and is simply referred to as the Gawain poet or the drop-off poet and is dated Ca. 1340-1400 from West Midlands in England, Sir Gawain and the one thousand Knight tells a tale of how Sir Gawain, a member of the esteemed Knights of the Round Table in King Arthur’s dally at Camelot, accepted a contest from a mysterious stranger, referred to as the thou Knight, who suddenly barges in on a merry feast in King Arthur’s Court.The tarradiddle contains points, both in a feminist and in a red ink reading, that exhibit both plus and negative symbolisms, thus, inevitably furthering the contention that this is alike very Deconstructivist; which is another literary possibleness and reading of the story. Certain symbolisms, themes and tads in the story show this is so, by being satisfactory of having both pro and anti- Feminist and Marxist ele ments, which would be discussed in a more than detailed earthner in the sideline pages.FEMINISIT READINGâ€Å"Women are systematically corrupted by receiving the trivial attentions which men ring it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their aver superiority.” (Wollstonecraft, 1759)Much can be gleaned when giving this musical compo personateion a feminist reading. To start with, this belonging to the classic Medieval Age court and it being one of the Arthurian Legend makes it a very easy prey for being tagged as anti Feminist.The very concept of the Medieval Age, and the unblemished mention of Arthurian Legends is in itself abounding subject of anti Feminist answer’s. The very fact alone that this era is characterized by patriarchal dominance and machismo is a strong enough qualification to enounce th is outright as an anti Feminist story, without even going to the analysis of the story. The several(prenominal) obvious of all is the general tone and obvious patriarchal system of the story. in that location is a King who is high and mighty, and he rules oer his subjects. The most loyal, admired and feared heroes are the Knights of the Round Table, whom, are all men. The fay Guinevere is set forth as if she was a wall prime quantity in all these brave brusk display of masculine superiority, and is even deemed to be quiet, and not to say anything. In some translations of the story she is even said to sit beside Gawain, and not beside his supposed husband.The mention in the text that she presides over the festivities is merely titular, if at all, a token too trifle. With such(prenominal) a patriarchal system, it follows that the story overly shows phallocentrism. If Camelot, the supposed Utopia is all patriarchal, what more could be expected of in the ‘real’ man? When Sir Gawain left on his quest to carry through his vow to the Green Knight, he came upon a castle, where the lord of the castle, Bertilak of Hautdesert told him to give to him whatever he gets in exchange for the game he hunted. While the lord is away, the lady of the castle is left idling away on the castle, and falls to seducing the visitor. This brings to mind another archetypal typecasting or stereotyping of women; the Sinner/Saint stereotypes.In this story, Guinevere is the keen maiden; the saintly woman of virtue, time the dame Bertilak is typecast as the sinner/slut/whore impure woman. There is an imposition of impossible virtues to the women as patently due to a macho look-alike and in contrast to how a man should be chivalrous and upright.The seduction of the Lady Bertilak as opposed to the chastity of Queen Guinevere is clearly a male enforce virtue and rule of morals to how women should act. They should wordlessly preside over ceremonies, as Guinevere does, o r should patiently wait for his husband to fall down home, as the Lady Bertilak should have done.\r\n \r\n'