Sir Gawain And The Green Knight's 'Honor In Beowulf'

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Brenda Clay-Ozenne Eric Schoeck, Inst. December 12, 2010 Humanities 111 The readings in humanities have taught me to look at things and people very differently, I must first look at myself and the task or questions in my life and how they will affect my life and the others that are around me. Like Adam and Eve in Genesis, God instructed Eve “And he said to the woman, “Though God said, you shall not eat from any tree of the garden-“And the woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the garden’s tree we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden God has said, “You shall not eat from it and you shall not touch it, lest you die.” And the serpent said to the woman, you shall not be doomed to die. For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will become as gods knowing good and evil.” (Genesis pg.41). This passage showed how there will be different test given to us in our lives, and it is up to us how we handle…show more content…
How one man learned how to be a great leader, by making mistakes and learning from the mistakes of the former king? Sir Gawain and the Green Knight were about honor, truth and respect, and what can happen when you abandon those things. The Canterbury Tales was a Great story about several people that went on a pilgrimage to basically find themselves, and each had a story to tell. We learned how to take each part of life and how to learn from the experiences of life, and how we look at each other. We learn that life has many different paths, and we each must learn how to deal with life and the horrors in your life. Basically humanities has taught me how to read, each and every part of life and how to make the right choices, and how we should learn from our mistakes and from the mistakes of others, and take these things and learn and share them in our everyday

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