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Post by brandonina on Oct 3, 2014 13:06:20 GMT
Hey Guys, so we started reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knights. I think the story is already more interesting.  I think that the color, Green, is pretty interesting for me. Why would the author characterize the knight as being "all green"? Things that are related to the color are nature, environment, health, good luck, renewal, youth, vigor, spring, generosity, jealousy, inexperience, envy What do you think the author was trying to symbolize with the color? This should be a simple prediction we can make by just reading the first chapter. I made a prediction that the Green Knight might be a jealous character who wants to become part of the Knights of the Round table. Also, the Green Knight might symbolize good luck since Sir Gawain might become a better and more renowned warrior after defeating the Green Knight. Lastly, the Green marks the shift of seasons since the Green Knight appears on Christmas eve and spring comes~. I don't think this was author's intention though. haha What are your thoughts? |
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Post by lukejoo on Oct 3, 2014 23:28:41 GMT
Out of the many meanings of the color green, I think vigor would suit to characterize the green knight. It relates to his lively and haughty manner that he showed when he went to the knights of the round table. And how he was so eager to call the king up to strike him shows much energy too. And the mere fact that he is a knight also relates to vigor since knights are seen as strong, powerful men.
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Post by ameliachen80385 on Oct 4, 2014 2:25:55 GMT
I agree with Luke.From your list,there is only vigor does suit to Green Knight.Denpending on what have we already read,as we can see that when the Green Knight cams up the mood is always related to haughty, bloody and violent.In the chapter 1 Green Knight without introducing himself just said whatever he wanted in front of the king,Arthur and after this he was carrying an axe announces that he was coming to test the honor of the legendary knights of the round table, and proposes a game.Green Knight wants Arthur himself to take up the challenge but his nephew,Gawain volunteers himself.Gawain brings the axe down on the Green Knight, chopping his head off.From these two sentence, we can infer that the Green Knight is very vigor.
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Post by lins on Oct 4, 2014 2:55:44 GMT
I personally love green because it symbolizes the nature. Since I live in a big city, I don't really have some chances to visit forests or some sort of natural environment. Green, as Brandon mentioned, symbolizes many themes like nature, new start, jealousy, vigor and more. Yet I believe that in the story Sir Gawain and Green Knight, green symbolizes new start.
Sir Gawain was the member of the round table knights' of King Author. He was relative of King Author as well. He had peaceful life, I think, having feasts and staying in his house or neighborhoods. However, due to Green Chapel Knight's visit, he has to travel around looking for the Green Knight. Thus, Sir Gawain is having new beginning because of the Green Knight. As a result, I believe that Green in the novel represents Sir Gawain's new journey.
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Post by nerdira on Oct 4, 2014 10:54:19 GMT
I think he could be jealous of King Arthur, seeing as he just came up to him and challenged his authority in front of his court. I don't think green represents vigor because when you have really energetic heroes they're usually represented by another color like red or blue. Which is the color of the costumes of most upbeat heroes. I think the author just chose green because it is such an unusual color for a knight to wear. Also, we know nothing about this knight's origin, so he could be a nature spirit just as we talked about for a while in second period english, since green symbolizes nature. And since the knight is, at the moment, antagonistic, it could represent how nature is not always nice and kind and friendly and sunshine and bunnies and butterflies.
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Post by estherchoi on Oct 4, 2014 15:28:25 GMT
I think the color green symbolizes both vigor and nature. We can clearly see how the Green Knight is vigorous by how he interrupts the party and talks all haughty. Ms. Boyd pointed out that the Green Knight didn't wear any shoes, but only stockings. I thought that what this symbolizes was the Knight was part of the nature.
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Post by stephen on Oct 4, 2014 15:50:57 GMT
I agree with idea of Green knight being jealous of knigts that is deeply trusted by the most well known and honorable king Arthur. Due to jealousy he has going along with his color he challenges Sir Gawain to be accpeted and proove to Arthur his strenght and loyalty.
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Post by James on Oct 4, 2014 17:31:46 GMT
As we discussed in class, I simply think that green represents the nature. The green knight was unable to be killed even after his head was chopped off. This shows the characteristic of strong nature I believe. The author is trying to show that just like nature, the green knight is ultimate and unbeatable figure for humans. There of course will be more meaning to it and intention of the authore will be obviously greater than just a simple thought, but the guess is that to show the power of nature and to connect that to the green knight
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Post by dannyoh on Oct 5, 2014 6:21:50 GMT
I know this may sound like a ridiculous assumption, but I feel like the green represents luck and since the green knight got away and disappeared
I thought it connected to a leprechaun. And when you catch a leprechaun it becomes a prize... maybe the green knight might have a similar concept?
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Post by elisalee on Oct 5, 2014 6:43:09 GMT
I personally think that the color green in the story represents the nature. This is interesting to me because in the story, Sir Gawain chop the Green Knight's head off but he was not dead. If the color green symbolizes nature, it should also mean balance (death, birth, etc.). However, this totally goes against the balance of nature. Maybe the author purposely put the color green to make the readers confused.
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Post by bachle on Oct 5, 2014 10:10:13 GMT
I think that in this case, the color of green is represent the meaning of envy because at that time, the round table is for the bravest and most honorable knights while the green knight may be even braver and more honorable than all of those knights but not be acknowledged by anyone. Just like us, when you are really good at something then someone new comes and people rumor about that person is the best, and you just be like "that's crap, no way". Thus, I think the green knight come here to test the knights of the round table.
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Post by danielkim on Oct 5, 2014 14:54:41 GMT
From the paper Ms. Boyd gave to us, green represents nature, environment, health, good luck, renewal, youth, vigor, spring, generosity, jealousy, inexperience, and envy.
Of these characteristics, I think the author was trying to show that the Green Knight was jealous and vigorous. From the story, the Green Knight challenged other knights to fight with him (he might want to show his strength to other knights). Also, the Green Knightâs use of extreme languages (used to mock other knights) shows that he was vigorous.
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Post by sergeyfen on Oct 5, 2014 16:20:03 GMT
I agree with green representing Jealousy. In the beginning of a story author mentions that King Arthur and his kingdom is famous for having elite soldiers. Green knight walked in simply because he wanted to get in or at least to see, whether rumours were true or false. Green can also represent luck for Sir Gwain, at current point of our reading Sir Gwain is sort of at the bottom of the warrior list , he is the weakest member of king Arthur's crew. Green knight could be his ticket to the top, by completing the challenge that he promised to complete, Sir Gwain might actually become strong and worthy warrior. Journey is not easy, it is guaranteed to be extremely difficult but that might be a way for Sir Gwain to become stronger.
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Post by woojong on Oct 6, 2014 14:33:14 GMT
Before I started reading Sir Gawain and the Green knight, green made me think about life and fortune. Therefore I automatically thought the Green Knight as a good person. However, as I read through the story, I changed my opinion a little. In my opinion, the Green Knight is more related to nature, not only because of the meaning of the color, but also because of his appearance. The green knight does not wear shoes, which means that he is directly connected to the ground, or nature.
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Post by misato on Oct 10, 2014 12:38:01 GMT
In this story there are a lot of colors. The author related colors with symbols for each colors.
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