1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight can be viewed as a journey from life to death and back to life. Discuss how this works.
Sir Gawain starts out at the beginning of his journey from Camelot. He jurnies through the wilderness to the Green Chapel. He comes across a castle and plays a game with the King. When he goes to the Green Chapel (he suposedly dies here) he is nicked by the blow from the Green Knight's axe and dies (mentaly/spiritually) when he is told by the Green Knight that it was all a game and that he did well at it and that is why he was only nicked. Sir Gawain is reborn when he starts his journey back to Camelot (broken by his own doing).
2. Sir Gawain is reborn both physically and spiritually at the end of the book how?Sir Gawain dies whe he leaves camolot and is reborn when he returns. Sir Gawain dies spiritually when he realizes the whole thing was a game and as a Knight he should have been fully truthfull with the King/Green Knight.
3. Whose Point of View are we suppose to exact at the end of the book? Why?
I think that we should goe with the Green Knight's view because life is a game and Sir Gwain did really well at it (but still throws a fit that he "failed").
4. Is Gawain ruined as a knight or will we see great deeds from him again?
He is ruend as a knight but only because he won't let go and learn from his very very mior failing. Which wasn't much of one because he didn't want to die.
5. In your opinion who is really in control?
The Green Knight and Morgan set it up into an unescapeable trap but Sir gwain is the one driving in his choices.
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