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Color Green 's Depiction of Good and Evil Symbolisms in the Medieval Poem

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Through the successful symbolism of the Green Knight , the green girdle and the green Chapel in this medieval poem , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight perfectly portrays color green as an element that does not only illuminate aesthetic value but also as a subject that characterizes various metaphorical meanings

On the contrary to the typical notion of color green as commonly associated to life , cleanliness

and vegetation , the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight represents green as the perfect imagery to describe good and evil

It is through the characterization of the Green Knight that color green becomes a symbol of evil such as trickery and delusion . In the poem , the Green Knight who challenged King Arthur 's warriors while on the verge of Christmas celebration to play beheading game is described to have a green complexion (Weston 8 . This color symbolism of the Green Knight is believed to have a parallelism to the hunters in the woods who usually wear green clothes in order to deceive and attract animals during their hunting . Sir Gawain , King Arthur 's youngest knight , seems like an animal which is attracted to the green color of a hunter when he accepted the challenge of the Green Knight . The complexion of the Green Knight serves as the symbol of deceit of the Green Knight to Sir Gawain as the devil 's...