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Green Knight explains specifically how Gawain was faulty in hisactions (taking the girdle from Lady Bertilak and yet never revealingthe gift as he promised), saying: “it was loyalty that you lacked: / notbecause you’re wicked, or a womanizer, or worse, / but you lovedyour own life (and lewte yow wonted; / Bot that was for no wylydewerke, ne wowing nauther, / Bot for ye lufed your lyf)” (lines 2366-2368). For this, Gawain receives a blow from the Green Knight’s axe,but “it skewed to one side, just skimming the skin (Bot snyrt hymon that on side, that severed the hyde),” leaving Gawain a mark toremind him of his misdeeds (line 2312). After the Green Knight andthe guilty Gawain amend their pact, Gawain thanks this hybrid manfor exposing his true nature:Bot your gordel, God yowforyelde!That wyl I welde with guodwylle, not for the wynnegolde…Bot in syngne of my surfet…remorde to myselvenThe faut and the fayntyse of thefleshe crabbed.But the girdle, God bless youfor this gift,Not for all its ore will I own itwith honor…but as a sign of my sin…a sad reminderthat the frailty of his flesh isman’s biggest fault(lines 2429-2435).caitlin garvey 121
Gawain is willing to accept his misdeeds and understands thathis actions have threatened his society’s code of chivalry and theexpectations of the court, and is thus prepared to deal with themonstrosity that lies ahead of him. Yet, institutional body within thistext is unwilling to deem themselves capable of producing a monsteror harboring the monstrous, therefore leading the court to reconcilethemselves with Gawain’s actions. To maintain the Green Knightas the monster, and Gawain as a respectable citizen, King Arthurdeclares that “every knight in the brotherhood—should bear such abelt”—or the green girdle—“a bright green belt worn obliquely to thebody, / crosswise, like a sash, for the sake of this man (Uche burneof the brotherhede, a bauderyk schulde have, / A bende abelef hymaboute, of a bryght grene, / And that, for sake of the segge, in sweteto were)” (lines 2516-2518). The governmental body is, therefore,able to adapt their societal expectations by clearly identifying goodand evil; they turn Gawain’s sin into a mark of honor, and maintainthe Green Knight as evil in flesh.Like Wonders and Sir Gawain, Grettir’s Saga also embodies the notionof the governmental body striving to maintain the status quo. Thegovernment in this case, is the institution of outlawry. As described inthe Appendix of the saga, “outlawry served as a legalized step towardsblood-taking and replaced a legal judgment of execution” (Byock 239).Additionally, “outlawry provided Icelandic society with an efficientand cost effective means of dispensing with troublemakers” (239).One can then see that outlawry functions as the institutional bodywithin the saga, for it is through this institution that the monster ispushed to the borders, helping to define society’s identity, while alsoproviding a means for the preservation and protection of the statusquo. With such conformity in place, the Icelanders have the abilityto eliminate otherness from the inside out and assert, through unity,their dominance in the world. Interestingly, the saga uses Grettir’sexistence to explore both the monster and the borderlands, while122 afternoons of alterity
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Table of ContentsFrom Medieval Mars
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From Medieval Marsh Monsters toFutu
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imagination, we must first attempt
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seed of monstrosity within themselv
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essence as a monster, it seems reas
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she bore two sons, one from the imp
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perhaps, anti-heroes) of the futuri
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to watch the murder and mutilation
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and modern audiences through their
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Works Cited“Bushwhacked.” Firef
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Projecting Otherness ontothe Disabl
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in any systematic structuration. An
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The idea of the monstrous’ vulner
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not us and are in the proximity of
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they want to be treated. The interv
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Monstrosity and theIrruption of Rea
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describing his fears of this place
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stained with sin” (Spearing 221).
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often and at will to show man somet
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?The
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story than as the beginning? What f
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It is textual content like this tha
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through the story as the Green Knig
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the first advocating voices for end
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“capable of seeing things objecti
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Darkness: The True Monster ofLitera
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the way they can make us feel, but
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not only closes out, extinguishes,
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and temptation, most especially for
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hours “led to the term ‘night
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specifically his relationship to da
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humanization of Grendel draws the r
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subconscious the message may be. Th
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Serial MonstrosityEmily Mastrobatti
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