Rather, these elements are a means for a test of character. The poem's division into four parts emphasizes the pervasive duple scheme as well. The Inherited Romance Structure See Notes on Middle English Romance . The Generic Plot . Descent Themes in GGK See A Note on Descent Themes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight .
Some critics refer to the use in some devotional manuals of the image of the five-fingered hand.
Thirteen Points about GGK 's Plot and Meaning 1. This is a traditional plot item and not necessarily, then, a critique of Camelot. The Green Knight's world is operating on a different plane from Gawain's. The ultimate test is not, then, of one of the named virtues or their related virtues, but of the endlessness of the knot. That the castle appears in answer to Gawain's prayer implies, perhaps, that Morgan's power is in the poem akin somehow to God's.