apparently they made a green knight movie did it accurately capture gawains heroic transformation beyond the understanding of the green knight and the court of arthur alike through his transcendence of moral failure
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moral perfection is a common theme in the arthurian cycle perfect courtly romantic devotion is considered in a parallel manner in Le Chevalier de la Charrette, thoughtfully but i think less skillfully than the treatment of honor and bravery in gawain's story
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the parallel is what is demanded of the protagonists: everything gawain must willingly surrender his life to demonstrate his bravery; lancelot his pride to prove his love incidentally the fact that pride is what is most dear to lancelot demonstrates that he sucks. fuck lancelot
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each faces two tests: lancelot, the cart and the joust; gawain, the knight's challenge on Christmas day, and his inevitable beheading the following year what makes gawain's story /better/ is that he passes his first test and fails his second
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and then, after he fails no one gets it he knows he fucked up. he knows he flinched and fell short of perfect his foe laughs and throws him a party and accounts him brave. arthur's court, all of whom flinched before the green knight's challenge, think hes a gigachad
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they even all adopt the sign of his shame as a symbol of pride to show that they're his buds and they love him. literally embroider it saying "this owns actually fuck the haters" hony soyt qui mal pence
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gawains trancendence comes from being humbled in failure and through this gaining an understanding--in spite of worldly acclaim--of what it would mean to truly Become Good. a vision of the Grail from then on even when in company he walks apart from other men
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ive never enjoyed Galahad he doesnt overcome anything in himself. hes just born perfect and stays that way. feels unsatisfying, unrelatable, vaguely inhuman
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"I know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him." "Dislikes him?" "They complain about him being inhuman." Lancelot considered his cup. "He is inhuman," he said at last. "But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human?"
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who called him Galahad instead of Marysuiel
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