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A 2.5 page paper which examines the role and status of women in these literary classics. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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of civilization. The role of woman has, ever since biblical times, has existed as little more than a male appendage. Her status is not typically her own but
depends on that of her husband or father. This notion has been reinforced in some of the greatest classics in world literature, not surprisingly all of which have been
written by men. In the anonymously written "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Geoffrey Chaucers "The Wife of Baths Tale" from his compilation The Canterbury Tales, Aristophanes comedy Lysistrata,
and John Miltons epic poem, "Paradise Lost," the role of women is portrayed either as an ideal, temptress, or as a sexual object, whatever the men determine it to be.
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is about a gallant defender of King Arthur, and also a protector of women - most specifically, their virtue. He is guided by
the moral integrity symbolized by the Virgin Mary, especially "in the bedroom," the epitome of the feminine ideal, a woman who suffers hardships in silence but always offers solace and
consolation to a man in need (Hardman 247). He will need plenty of guidance from the Virgin Mary when, on his way to a jousting tournament rematch with the
mysterious Green Knight, Sir Gawain is the houseguest of the absent Lord Bercilak, and forced to fend off the advances of Lady Bercilak. Although Sir Gawain successfully wards off
Lady Bercilaks sexual advances, he compromises his integrity when she offers him her green girdle to ensure his invincibility, saying simply, "I shall give you my girdle; you gain less
thereby" (Anonymous 1829). He learns later that he was nothing more than a pawn in an elaborate game of retaliation that was staged by the sorceress Morgan le Fay.
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