Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight <Tab/>Throughout Sir Gawain And The Green Knight there is a stark contrast between life within a castle and the world outside. In this poem life inside of a castle represents society, security, happiness and a closeness to God; while the world outside represents wilderness, danger, and vulnerability to evil. This binary is very significant in that it helps the reader to understand the lives …

…security and, for the most part, they knew what was next. The binary also tells us much about there religious beliefs. From the thing they say we can infer that they took the bible very literally. They believed that the Devil roamed the earth performing rituals and such. The importance of binaries in this text is proven to be great by this one simple binary.<Tab/> <Tab/>