1. Structure and Meaning in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sam Berit, Yash Hari, Ryan Kulka, Selin Ozoglu, Min Son, Arthur Vasilyuk

2. Robert Ward Margeson 1944-2015 Canadian
Earned PhD at the University of Toronto
1971- wrote a doctoral thesis about King Arthur
Professor at the University of Guelph

3. Other scholars of literature
Audience
Other scholars of literature
conveys the significance of both circular and linear analysis
Readers
provides further support on their idea of symmetrical poem (circularity)

4. Summary and Other Important Information
Linear versus circular shape of Gawain’s quest
Beginning and ending in perfection versus perfection to imperfection
Concept of the past
Circular-past is past, present, and future
Linear-past is only the past, cannot be repeated
Gawain sees himself linearly, everyone else sees his adventure as a circular path
Only knight to see his mistake, begins on the path to correct himself
Pearl
Christian poem

5. Relationship to Our Study of Text
Symbols, virtues of Gawain as a very religious knight
Shield(Pentangle), 5 knightly virtues
Celtic pagan beliefs: Year=importance cycle in human and natural worlds
circular cycle

6. Three Take-Away Points
Gawain sees his quest as a linear venture (failure)
From a perfect to imperfect knight
The court sees the quest as circular (success)
Completion of the beheading game, no net effect on Camelot
Gawain walks away from his quest as a better knight