Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
There are many parallels that can be drawn from the three temptations, hunting scenes, and the three blows exchanged by the Green Knight. All of these scenes are intentionally interwoven in Gawain's quest; the trials he endures leading up to his meeting with the Green Knight, to fulfill his promise made the year before, are nicely interlocked. The correlations first start with the bargain that Bertilak makes with Sir Gawain. "That whatever I win in the woods be yours, and any achievement you chance on here, you exchange for it" (pg. 62). This is what sets the stage for the coming scenes of Bertilak's hunts in the woods, Gawain's temptations by the Lady of Bertilak, and the three blows exchanged by the Green Knight. Unknown to Gawain is that Bertilak's three hunts and the three temptations of the Lady is what decides the fate of the outcome of his meeting with the Green Knight. In the hunts of Bertilak, he hunts for the deer, the boar and the fox. Bertilak's Lady could also be said......
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