Chivalry In The Secret Sharer

The Secret Sharer Chivalry is the system of ethical ideals that arose from feudalism and had its highest development in the 12th and 13th centuries. Noble youths became pages in the castles of other nobles at the age of seven; at the age of fourteen they trained them as squires in the service of knights. They learned horsemanship, military techniques, and were knighted around the age of twenty-one. The chivalric virtues were piery, honor, valor, courtesy, chastity and loyalty; yet the loyalty was due to God, the temporal and spiritual master. They represented a fusion of Christianity and military concepts of morality, and are still in form for the basic gentlemen conduct today. The essence of chivalry in this world “can be compared to” instead of “is like”is like the evolution of the world, it changed as the world evolutionized. In The Secret Sharer, while all the crew members are at the round table for dinner, the Captain decides that he will take the night shift knowing that there is a chance of death. While keeping watch, he hears something on the ladder and decides to pull it up out of the water. What comes is shocking to the Captain, a naked and young white man man named Leggatt. “I got a sleeping suit out of my room and, coming back on deck, saw the naked man from the sea sitting on the main
Like Sir Gawain saved The Green Knights, like the Captain saved Leggatts. “With a gasp I was revealed to the stare a pair of feet, the long legs a broad livid back immersed right up to the neck in a greenish cadaverous glow” (Summary Central). The greenish cadaverous glow symbolizes life, if the Captain would not have seen the glow, would he have ever saved his life? Just like Sir Gawain saved The Green Knights life because if The Green Knight would have never taken the green sash for good luck he never would have had the nick of the ax. Sir Gawain and The Green Knight can be explained as man vs. man, one may fight against the other to