“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a very interesting and thought-provoking narrative, full of mystical creatures and wonderful details, the author known as Gawain- poet did a great job in portraying the characters throughout the story. During the story, the Green Knight challenges King Arthur to a game, which Sir Gawain accepts. Gawain participates in the game by cutting off the head of the green knight, who picks it up and leaves. Gawain will meet the green knight in a year to receive his blow. The theme of the narrative is simply youth over age, which is implied at the beginning of the story because of the New Year's Eve party. “The youth of Arthur and Arthur's people…introduces the theme of youth versus age which is an aspect of the spring-winter (or New Year-Year) theme” (Spiers 10). The point of view is third-person limited omniscient; Sir Gawain describes his story in a third-person voice limited to Gawain's point of view, which is an important aspect of the story, especially for the tale's surprising ending. The place and time of the setting changes throughout the story, the beginning is set in Camelot for a Christmas feast and the ending in the green chapel, both begin around the time of New Year and Christmas and are also placed in the mythical period of King Arthur's court. “The poet Gawain then focuses on the destruction of Troy, the founding of ancient city states and kingdoms (Rome, Tuscany, Lombardy, and Great Britain), and the rise of King Arthur” (Blanch 1). The characters throughout the story are described in such detail and the author uses beautiful language to describe the different obstacles that Gawain must overcome throughout the story....... middle of paper...... 68.1 ( January 1971): p255-269. Rpt. in Criticism of Classical and Medieval Literature. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. vol. 2. Detroit: Gale Research, 1988. Word count: 4243. From the Literary Resource Center.Romanticism and Anti-Romanticism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sacvan Bercovitch. Critical Studies of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Ed. Donald R. Howard and Christian Zacher. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968. p257-266. Rpt. in Criticism of Classical and Medieval Literature. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. vol. 54. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. Word count: 3400. From the Literature Resource Center. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Overview. Robert J. Blanch. Reference guide to English literature. Ed. DL Kirkpatrick. 2nd ed. Chicago: St. James Press, 1991. Word count: 1411. From the Literary Resource Center.