Romanticized "love"

Since we have been talking a lot lately about chivalry and the knight's relations with women, I thought I would put in my two cents about love and why I feel so many marriages are falling apart these days. From the earliest literature on, we see that the word "infatuation" is often replaced with "love". This is probably because most of these stories are written by men and lust is probably the biggest cloud over our reason that exists. If I wrote a sonnet about every attractive female I saw, I would never get anything else done! The problem is that this infatuation eventually runs dry and many people think this is their cue that they no longer "love" their woman and they need to go have an affair - I seriously think this is why the divorce rate is so high. True love and sacrifice comes into play when infatuation goes away. Love is standing by your woman simply because you are honoring the covenant of marriage you made to her and God. Our culture needs to get a grip!

my response to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

While the story seemed slow to take off for me, I really enjoyed it after the part where the Green Knight enters, makes his challenge, and gets his head chopped off. I don't know what I was expecting, but I really didn't think the knight would actually be green all over. Maybe I thought it would be a symbolic green like the color of a certain region of knights (like we have colors to represent our football teams) but it turned out to be much more fairy-tale like than I expected.

Also, I wasn't surprised at all that the woman turned out to be the wife of the green knight. I knew she had something to do with him because it was too strange how they asked him to stay over and over at the castle. Another thing I took to be a clue was the kisses - it was too ritualistic to just be the woman getting her jollies - and that the host wanted to exchange whatever they had received for the day - too weird a request to not mean something.

Something that I was disappointed with was the ending. It seemed to fizzle out for me. Maybe I am just too accustomed to twist and surprise endings from reading too much science fiction/fantasy and horror...