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Sir Gawain To understand the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, more fully the reader needs to understand chivalry. Chivalric behavior in the sense of a knight can be defined as having courtesy, being gallant, and honor. The practice of chivalry forms the basis of conduct for the Middle Ages. Two actions in this story show Sir Gawain’s chivalry and humanize him. When Sir Gawain arrived at a castle, he was introduced to a lord and his lady. The lord welcomed the knight with open arms and said that whatever he hunted, he would give to Sir Gawain at the end of the day, and whatever Sir Gawain got, he had to give to the lord. While the lord was out hunting, his wife started to make a move at Sir Gawain. The first day, she gave him a kiss, so Sir Gawain had to kiss the lord. The second day sir, gawain, lord, knight, day, green, chivalry, kisses, gave, wife, whatever, understand, two, three, sometimes, sash, promise, poem, kiss, give, end, castle, broke, beowolf, before, while, welcomed, way, twice, time, thought, third, surprised, strike, strength