Sir. Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
The story starts when the magical knight Sir Gromer Somer Joure moves King Arthur to find what ladies want the most, or face desperate results.Lord Arthur is separated from everyone else and unarmed, and Sir Gromer’s appearance represents a genuine danger to him. Sir Gromer tells the ruler that he should return in precisely one year’s time, alone and dressed as he is currently, and offer him the response to an inquiry he will pose. In the event that the ruler neglects to provide an acceptable answer, Sir Gromer will remove his head. The question is this: would it be that ladies most want?Although both knights had to find out what woman want in order to save their lives, one knight raped a woman, and the other intruded on someone’s land who put them in a predicament. This paper is to compare and contrast the story, Sir Gawain and Ragnelle.
This story has different elements, that is the characters, the setting and the events occurring in the story. We have different personalities, but the main characters of this story are, sir Gawain, King Arthur and Dame Ragnelle.
There are truth and loyalty to one’s word in this story. Both of King Arthur and Sir Gromer keeps their words when the conditions they give are met. Sir Gromer lets king Arthur keep his life when he gives him the correct answer to his riddle. King Arthur, on the other side, keeps his word to Dame Ragnelle by letting her marry one of his knits, Sir Gawain.. Don't use plagiarised sources.Get your custom essay just from $11/page
There is also a similarity in some of the events in the story. There is a similarity in Dame Ragnelle asking King Arthur to let her marry Sir Gawain and where the old lady asks him to allow her to marry one of his knights when he is in the forest.
There is a difference in events in the story. When King Arthur introduces Dame Ragnelle to the people as the wife of Sir Gawain, they both feel pity for the knight for marrying such a creature. This is a very different case with Sir Gawain because, in his eyes, Dame Ragnelle is a fair creature. When she asks him if he would at least kiss her, Sir Gawain responds, “I will do more than kiss you, and before God (Dannenbaum, 3)!”
Works Cited
Dannenbaum, S. (1982). The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, Line 48. Explicator, 40(3), 3.