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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I read this for Brit Lit 1 this year! I remember it being fun.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I have no idea how to rate this book!
A friend (who studies English lit) lended her
copy to me with all her annotations inside.
Which was a very nice extra bonus to my
reading experience
I basicly went into this book completely blind,
except for the fact it would be crazy. Which it
was sometimes!
This was my first classic Poem! It honestly
intimidated me a little at the start but it read like a fairy tale!
I laughed out loud a couple of times and I did
feel the need to talk about this poem during and after reading it.
My husband knows the whole story without
having to read it himself and I even read some
parts to him!
I'm really excited to start reading more poems
and story's like this!
A friend (who studies English lit) lended her
copy to me with all her annotations inside.
Which was a very nice extra bonus to my
reading experience
I basicly went into this book completely blind,
except for the fact it would be crazy. Which it
was sometimes!
This was my first classic Poem! It honestly
intimidated me a little at the start but it read like a fairy tale!
I laughed out loud a couple of times and I did
feel the need to talk about this poem during and after reading it.
My husband knows the whole story without
having to read it himself and I even read some
parts to him!
I'm really excited to start reading more poems
and story's like this!
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
That lord was well aware
of how to host a game
An extremely vivid story. The descriptions of the Green Knight, of landscapes, of the aftermath of a hunt, are extremely evocative. It really pulls you into the tale that the poem is telling, and I think Armitage's translation really captures that.
The meaning of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is somewhat difficult to pin down, I think. At times, it reads like a story about human fallibility - how the Ideal Knight, as Gawain is famed to be, is not real. It is an impossible criterion to reach. At other points, it reads like a puritan tale about the risk of temptresses (especially at the end). Overall, I think the story is best approached as being about failure - of wanting to succeed, but being held back by doubt, and, importantly, fear of death and legacy.
Ultimately, it is a quick read, and worth it.
Definitely need to read some more Arthurian stuff because this was a LOT of fun