Sir Gawain A Test of Faith

After reading Sir Gawain I can not help but see a Christian value rising up out of this story. Once I had reflected back on what I had read I realized that the number three has stood out to me, and that in the bible the number is of great significance. The tap that the Green Knight dealt to Sir Gawain is another symbol that stood out to me as well, this is Sir Gawain’s punishment and when he had ask the Green Knight his name at the end of the story, it symbolizes Sir Gawain’s shame after it is all through. Sir Gawain is a young and noble knight, but he is not with out fault just as most of us today are not without fault.
At first it did not stand right out to me until I thought back to my days in Sunday school. In the bible you are taught that you put your faith in the father, son, and Holy Ghost. Just about everything in life happens in threes, god has created man, but man needs a mate, so he creates woman out of man, then a child is created. Man, woman, and child, the...