Characteristics of the ideal knight as found in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

In the story, Sir Gawain dedicates much of his life in serving king Arthur throughout his legendry. This
is evidenced through his repetitive scarification of his life to the king. He, Sir Gawain himself sets into
the legendry round table of the king through his tireless dedications. Therefore, Sir Gawain becomes
the epitome of the story The Ideal Knight. Sir Gawain is a respectful knight on his own who is
characterized by the sincerity of his words. The story about The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame
Ragnell, puts him as that one individual who lives aiming at the expectations of the knight. This shows
the Gawain’s exemplary determination and sincerity towards serving his king. His unique and sincere
dedications made the king to give him a piece of land belonging to Gromer Somer. The king’s action
of giving out the land faces contradiction by many people however, yielding no change. This shows
the strong relationship between Sir Gawain and his king, Arthur. Hence, a greator part of the ideal
knight in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is characterized by sincerity and strong relationship
between the two.

The story once again portrays Sir Gawain as a noble and intelligent servant of the king. Gawain shows
his nobleness by abiding to marry the disgusting woman Dame Ragnell in order to save the king’s life
together with his friend’s. This is an example of the occasions in which Gawain’s wisdom is evidenced
in the choices he makes. The same wisdom and intelligence are observed when Dame wanted him to
choose when to she can make herself beautiful. Gawain declined and claimed to be loving Ragnell with
her outlook and no need of making herself beautiful.