DeAndrade,+Athina

===This should be interesting. There's quite a bit to learn from this site. Thankfully the wiki guide is available to help. Thanks to Robert for making it! ===

2.22.11 ====-So I watched the videos from the external links before reading the actual text and I find it helpful to have the visual connections to think about. I've gotten to the part in the text where the fair lady goes into Gawain's bed for the first time. The words used to describe the whole process does a good job at setting the scene. "she approached silently, stealing to his bed, lifted the bed-curtain [ this itself makes me laugh a little because of the use of language] and crept within, and seating herself softly on the bedside..." It goes on to their initial conversation and well you all know because you've read it as well. But, like, if I was to stop reading around there and not have seen the video, I'd get the impression that this lady was a psycho. Who goes into someone's bed at night while they're sleeping and just sits there... I'm interested in reading on. I'm sure I'll be posting again shortly. ====

2.23.11 (Class Wiki)

 Fitt 3 (Part 3) Was a very hefty one. Half of the Fitt went into great detail of the hunts that the lord went on. The other half was spent in focus on Gawain and his interactions with the fair lady. There was a lot that stood out to me during my reading, and I'll touch upon that at a different time. A passage that I found very important actually came towards the end of the Fitt when the fair lady gives Gawain her green girdle. She had been trying to give Gawain any kind of gift for his kindness and for bringing her the feeling of love, which he refused. When the lady presented him with the girdle she revealed that " '..whoever is buckled into this green belt, as long as it is tightly fastened about him there is no man on earth who can strike him down, for he cannot be killed by any trick in the world.' " He thought this be a useful secret during his encounter with the Green Knight. This being important leading into Fitt 4

2.28.11 (Class Wiki)

The article "Undressing Lady Bertilak" had a lot of different views on how to interpret the Lady's speech and interaction with Gawain. In reading, the view that I found most interesting came from Joseph E. Gallagher in his article " 'Trawthe' and 'Luf-Talking' in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". He talked a lot about how the verse of the Lady could be taken as either hostess or seductress. I find it funny because in the last class we discussed the typical rules in hospitality during that time. In being that the guest is usually the one who was to provide what the host/hostess asked of them, I'd definitely say that the Lady is speaking mostly as a seductress. She knows full well that Gawain will do as she pleases and uses her beauty to get that. Her dress in the interaction scenes of SGGK is also very character when taking the seductress piece as the main picture.

3.21.11 (Class Wiki) Why is the "Miller's Tale" a fabliaux/farce?