Gawain

Gawain Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is filled with magic and symbolism. Morgan le Faye and Merlin are responsible for the magic of the Green Knight. There are three literal hunts (deer, boar, and fox), three symbolic hunts (the attempts to seduce Gawain), and three hits of the Green Knight's ax. The deer is timid, the boar is ferocious, and the fox is cunning and sly. The characteristics of the animals are symbolic of Gawain and the challenges set before him. There is great significance in the fact that the events in this poem occur in multiples of three. Three times Gawain is tempted by the lovely lady, and on the third time, he succumbs to her temptations, by accepting the green three, green, gawain, threes, third, knight, hunts, events, times, time, significance, magic, fox, fact, deer, child, boar, women, withholds, was, trying, unfold, trimesters, trilogy, times, three, symbolic, that, christianity, tempted, temptations, teaches, taps, take, symbolism, swings, sun, succumbs, story, son, sly, sir, set, seduce, scar, purposely, poet, poem, place, passage, occur, multiples, morgan