Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/ Everyman: The Heroic Prevailing

As we come to know the two protagonists in the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and in the play Everyman, it is patent that the two characters develop as heroes through their faith in Christianity and in a higher power. Although the method of characterization differs, both Sir Gawain and Everyman discuss the development of a Christian hero. Sir Gawain and Everyman both possess real human traits such as fear, self-pity and dishonesty and through their natural flaws both characters excel, thus becoming not any ordinary heroes, but Christian heroes.
Sir Gawain is immediately introduced in the poem as a character of courage and loyalty when he takes the challenge of the Green Knight, putting his life before that of the kings. “Gawain goes to the guest with gisarme in hand, / And boldly he bides there, abashed not a whit.”(S.G.375-376) Everyman related to Sir Gawain in many ways; however his traits were manifested differently. Everyman was introduced as a realistic characte...