Sir Gawain and Numerology

                Since I don’t consider myself a nerd or geek or whatever I had no idea that Sir Gawain was an Arthurian legend. I don’t really like Arthurian legends for the simple fact that my father loves Merlin and crap like that, and he would hog the living room T.V watching it. I don’t know why but they bore me.  And it seems Sir Gawain is no different. There are so many things about the story that really irritate me. The fact that Arthur didn’t want to eat until he saw something interesting happen was really childish to me.  Who does that, starves his people until they excite him enough to eat? And then the Green Knight showing up is to pose a challenge was so odd.  I don’t understand why Gawain would agree to the Green Knight’s challenge, it seemed so fishy to me but I guess he wanted to prove himself.  The little twist at the end was entertaining. I think it was good for the story for the Green Knight to be Bertilak. And the whole time everyone was assuming the Green Knight was the villain but in reality he wasn’t and the villain of the story was someone who wanted even important enough to be mentioned that often. This kind of threw me off.

                 We all wanted to know if Sir Gawain should be considered a superhero or not. I don’t think he should be considered one because he is normal guy who decided to do something heroic. He even said himself that he is the weakest knight at the round table.  He really isn’t a superhero because he has no powers, his costume is questionable, he has values and a cause but those alone don’t make him superhero material.  But I will say that Gawain is a Super hero because he wants to protect the honor of his land and defend his King and Queen and he agrees to do something stupid to prove himself worthy.

                We discussed Numerology and how it played out in the story.  I didn’t know that the study of numbers was so important to people and how they live their lives until we discussed it in class.  But I looked up numerology and people really think by calculating numbers they can choose the right paths in life.  I still don’t understand the importance of numerology in Sir Gawain besides the five knightly virtues and the other five 5’s but I know it is significant.

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