Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo

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Summary: A Christian knight meets The Green Man of Celtic myth.
Review: Very deep: much deeper than it appears

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Summary: What seems to be real and what is actually real
Review: While Sir Gawain wears the green girdle as a sign of his humility and wrong doing, the people in the court see it as a sign of his honor and chivalrous manner. Sir Gawain takes the green girdle from the host's wife because as the time when he will face the Green Knight approaches he is more and more fearing for his life. Sir Gawain defies the rules of the game being played with the host and does not present this girdle to him at the third nights end. When the Green Knight identifies himself as the husband of the women who was courting him Sir Gawain realizes that he has been tricked and not upheld the honor of the Round Table. The castle that Gawain had run upon in the woods was actually an illusion, which was part of the game that was being played on Gawain. Througout the poem there is a contrast between what seems to be real and what is actually real.