1) Lady Bertilak can be equated to an Eve type figure (a sexual being) or the seducer (the snake):
"You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
2) The number three is important. Gawain denies his faith on the third day.
3) Absolution - even through Gawain does and prays to be absolved of his sins in case he meets his Judgment Day, it is not complete, because absolution cannot be given for the sin he still intends on committing.
4) Girdle as symbol. What is it?
5) The Old Lady. The description of the Bertilak. The animals.
6) Make sure you look at the language of the bedroom scenes and relate them to sword fighting or fencing. Really. There is something going on here.
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