Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, has many garden and wilderness images in Fit IV. In the very beginning of the Fit, stanza 80, we read 'Daylight fought darkness' this is a garden and wilderness comparison. We see images describing the weather in the first section 'Wild was the weather the world awoke to' and 'Bitterly the clouds cast down on the cold earth, inflicting on the flesh flails from the north.' These images all give us a sense of a wilderness, cold uncomfortable and gloomy. The poem goes on to describe the snow, how the beasts are frozen, the sound of the wind and the deep drifts of snow. In stanza 83 the poem describes Sir Gawain's journey to the green knights chapel. The following contains many wilderness images 'By bluffs where boughs were bare they passed, climbed by cliffs where the cold clung: Under the high clouds, ugly mists, merged deeply with the moors and melted on the mountains; Each hill had a hat, a huge mantle of mist.' Then the author goes o

Throughout Fit IV we see heroic qualities of Gawain, which are part of the criteria for a hero in the romance pattern in literature. In stanza 80 we see Gawain getting ready to leave to meet the green knight. The poem reads 'the strong man sent for his steed' and strength is a characteristic of a hero. Stanza 81 goes on to describe his clothes, leaving us with the impression that Gawain looks handsome and is an important figure, he is called a 'comely lord'. Sir Gawain is also referred to as a prince, a noble knight and acts honorable and dignified by praising the porter. The porter also says to Gawain 'you are a lord whom I love with no little regard' this shows us that he is kind and respected. When suggested that Gawain should not visit the knight he says if he did that he 'should become a cowardly knight with no excuse whatever'. When the green knight is about to hit Gawain with the axe, Gawain flinches, showing us that he is still human but then remains to take the blow. This shows us that he is truly brave even if he is in a frightening situation. And later when he talks about the girdle, he reveals that this was his flaw, he did not have full trust in god. When he returned to the court he is called a brave man. All of these characteristics of Gawain make

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