Gawain has gone through with his quest despite the guide offering to not say anything if he didn't. Gawain has proven his chivalry, honor, and honesty as a Knight and person when he honestly relays his travels while wearing genuine shame on his face. "Arthur, Guenevere and the others gaily laugh at him, seeking to diminish his shame and wanting to integrate him back into Camelot".(Trigg) By honoring his role as a Knight despite carrying shame about his actions, Gawain has learned and therefore is rewarded with unquestioning acceptance back to the roundtable.

Professor Stephanie Trigg, University of Melbourne. “The Poem behind the Green Knight.” Pursuit, The University of Melbourne, 4 Mar. 2024, pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-poem-behind-the-green-knight.

It was brave for Gawain to take the king's place in the Green Knight's challenge. "Medieval chivalric literature certainly celebrates this pursuit of knightly honour, but as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight makes abundantly clear, the threat of shame is ever-present".(Trigg) I am curious though if by "strike" the Green knight meant decapitate. It was a bold move for Gawain to try to kill the Green Knight considering the deal was he'd face the exact same blow one year later. It could be debated whether this is honorable, cocky, or careless. I feel this choice was one of the lessons Gawain learned through this journey as a knight since it left him feeling uneasy when the Green Knight left and the party resumed.

Professor Stephanie Trigg, University of Melbourne. “The Poem behind the Green Knight.” Pursuit, The University of Melbourne, 4 Mar. 2024, pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-poem-behind-the-green-knight.

The beginning of the oath to chastity against their husbands. Lysistrata had succeeded thus far in convincing the other women to deny their husbands any sexual advances. Lysistrata was written by a male author; Aristophanes. With that being said, characters like Lysistrata were "role models which indicated to women, and men, what constituted acceptable version of the ‘feminine’ and legitimate feminine goals and aspirations" In analyzing Lysistrata as a whole, we can see what role men perceived women to fulfill around the time of the Peloponnesian war.

Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory, An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.

It is a simple correlation of the way in which a person is brought up impacts their view on the world. Sometimes, those brought up in a religious household, for a period of time, share the same outlook on life as their parents. Sometimes children continue to share this commonality with their parents into adulthood and sometimes not. When they stray from their parent's line of think I find it very interesting to find out what it is that they experienced or learned that caused them to change their beliefs. "Learning and constructing knowledge are rooted in, but not limited to, people's culture of origin."(Tisdel) Reading a religious text as literature removes the element of having to believe and allows to reader to absorb the content at face value and later dig into the deeper meaning.

Tisdell, E. J. (2005). Exploring spirituality and culture in adult and Higher Education. Jossey-Bass.