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Discuss the lines "In destinies sad or merry, / True men can but try" (564-565).
This will become the closest to a "moral" that the poem offers. Men, because they are not God or Christ, can only try, which implies occasional (or frequent) failure. This line, given so early in the journey, almost sets the reader up to expect Gawain to fail in his quest. This line because particularly important at the end of the poem, when Gawain is disillusioned by the court's lack of disappointment in him.
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What is the effect of reading about the changing seasons as Gawain waits to go in search of the Green Knight?
The changing seasons invoke both nature and the...
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