More Gawain!

Well here we are: my last blog. To finish off my blogging experience I'm going to continue the in-class discussion we had on Gawain. We were talking about the 6 kisses that Gawain received and if there was any correlation between them and the hunted animals. I can't really find any real connection to the plot but  I noticed that the more kisses Gawain received from the queen, the smaller the hunted animal is. For example: 1 kiss equates to a deer, 2 kisses equates to a boar, and 3 kisses equates to a fox. I'm not sure whether or not this is simply a coincidence or was purposefully put in the story by the author (even though I have no idea why). Something else I wanted to discuss was the homosexual interpretation of the relationship between Gawain and the King. Personally, I believe that any story that has at least two people of the same gender can be interpreted to have homosexual undertones. Currently, the U.S. (and many other countries) are going through a phase of personal acceptance. By this, I mean that the U.S. is becoming much more open and accepting of homosexual relationships than it has been in past years. Gay rights is a huge controversy currently in the States. Due to this new-found (or somewhat new-found) freedom in sexuality within the american public,  more and more homosexual interpretations of old and ancient literature are emerging. Honestly, I do not believe that the King and Gawain were involved in any sort of sexual relationship. I believe that the kisses were simply a plot device used by the author to create a scandalous situation that would tie back into the plot later. However, this is all up to the reader's own interpretation.

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