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<blockquote data-quote="Dioltach" data-source="post: 8039552" data-attributes="member: 21843"><p>It will be interesting to see whether the game (or the movie even!) incorporates some of the deeper mythological elements. For example, the Green Knight is very obviously a representation of nature and its annual cycles.</p><p></p><p>But Gawain also represents the midday sun: his strength waxes in the morning, and wanes in the afternoon (even Mallory explicitly mentions this, which means that it's an essential feature of the character, since he was following the French tradition of making Gawain a scumbag).</p><p></p><p>There's also Percival, who (and I'm not sure anyone besides me has ever noticed this, because I never saw it mentioned in any of the literature during my studies) represents the setting and rising sun, and/or the winter solstice, and death and rebirth. I once wrote an essay where I drew a comparison between the Percival stories and Star Wars: Percival kills the Red Knight who had killed his father, and then becomes the Red Knight himself. The implication is that his father was actually the Red Knight, just the same way Anakin was "killed" by Darth Vader.</p><p></p><p>There are other things like this going on in medieval romances. Sir Greysteel in "Eger and Grime" for instance has the same "stronger until midday, then weaker" that Gawain does, and characters who, if you scratch the surface, actually represent Celtic gods: the Morrigan, in her various guises, becomes Morgan le Faye, Morgause, Mordred.</p><p></p><p>I'd love to see a Arthurian movie that does this, instead of the standard "knights fighting evil invaders/evil traitors" stories.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dioltach, post: 8039552, member: 21843"] It will be interesting to see whether the game (or the movie even!) incorporates some of the deeper mythological elements. For example, the Green Knight is very obviously a representation of nature and its annual cycles. But Gawain also represents the midday sun: his strength waxes in the morning, and wanes in the afternoon (even Mallory explicitly mentions this, which means that it's an essential feature of the character, since he was following the French tradition of making Gawain a scumbag). There's also Percival, who (and I'm not sure anyone besides me has ever noticed this, because I never saw it mentioned in any of the literature during my studies) represents the setting and rising sun, and/or the winter solstice, and death and rebirth. I once wrote an essay where I drew a comparison between the Percival stories and Star Wars: Percival kills the Red Knight who had killed his father, and then becomes the Red Knight himself. The implication is that his father was actually the Red Knight, just the same way Anakin was "killed" by Darth Vader. There are other things like this going on in medieval romances. Sir Greysteel in "Eger and Grime" for instance has the same "stronger until midday, then weaker" that Gawain does, and characters who, if you scratch the surface, actually represent Celtic gods: the Morrigan, in her various guises, becomes Morgan le Faye, Morgause, Mordred. I'd love to see a Arthurian movie that does this, instead of the standard "knights fighting evil invaders/evil traitors" stories. [/QUOTE]
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