Sir Gawain's Fault in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight": What's all the fuss about anyway? A question of life, death, and ethics in the 14th Century: What happens when a Kantian mind meets a Machievellian body? Sir Gawain lied and kept the green girdle, so what? He wanted to live. Is that so wrong? >From the first time I read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I have been troubled by the question of …
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