Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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"I confess, knight, in this place, / Most dire is my misdeed" (lines 2385-2386). The Green Knight replies "I hold you polished as a pearl, as pure and as bright / As you had lived free of fault since first you were born" (lines 2393-2394). The Green Knight explains that Gawain has realized his errors and confessed, and that he is truly pure...
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The Green Knight explains that Gawain has realized his errors and confessed, and that he is truly pure. Gawain is still irked by his imperfection, and he even goes so far as to blame women. "And through the wiles of a woman be wooed into sorrow, / For so was Adam by one, when the world began, / And Solomon by many more, and Samson the mighty- / Delilah was his doom, and David thereafter / Was beguiled by Bathsheba, and bore much distress" (lines 2415-2419)...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Summary Sir Gawain and the Green Knight follows a classic quest formula, with a knight receiving a challenge, going out on a journey to meet that challenge, and then returning home to tell everyone about his adventurous quest...	2 / 395
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