Symbols and Symbolism in Sir Gawain and Green Knight Essay -- Sir Gawa

Symbolism in Sir Gawain and the thousand Knight Symbolism is a literary technique used in Sir Gawain and the unripened Knight to liven up the story and give a deeper significance to the plot. Almost anything in the poem can be interpreted as a symbol in one way or another. The blue jet Knight, the green sash, and Sir Gawains shield are three of the most prominent symbols presented to us in this authors tale. The Green Knight, this poems antagonist, serves as a symbol himself. He is not only portrayed as evil, but a mixture of the familiar and foreign, nature and synthetic, and divine and goddamned origin. His large stature can be interpreted as threatening or powerful. His green glow could be nature-associated or alien-associated. The first time he appears in the poem, he is even carrying a holly-branch (signifying peace) in one hand and a battle axe (signifying conflict) in the other. Its hard to say exactly for what the Green Knight stands, because f...