Comparison and Contrast: Medieval Characteristics 1 Sir Gawain is shown to be courteous, formidable, fierce, compassionate and a loyal person to the king and his family. The story portrays the hero to be more human. Sir Gawain is faced with Green Knight challenge. This is because when Green Knight appeared in court belonging to King Arthur he caused the disturbance by asking all those present in court to strike each other promising to give away his finely-crafted axe as the prize. The test which appears to be simple puts Gawain into conflict with Green Knight. Gawain honors his uncle King Arthur when Knight came to challenge him in his castle (Dolsen, 2011). Sir Gawain faces several physical challenges as he tries to look for the Green Chapel a characteristic used to determine if one will become a hero. Gawain comes into constant battles with wolves and serpents in the process of proving to be a hero. Gawain is also tempted in Bercilak's castle by Lady Bercilak's who gives him advances and gifts that he refused to take. He, however, accepted her green girdle meant for protection and in the end, it becomes clear that his true enemy was not Green Knight but rather his true self since he feared death. He, however, overcomes the fear but fails since he had taken the girdle. He becomes a true hero by realizing his mistakes and continued wearing the green girdle to signify his disgrace (Dolsen, 2011). In Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid story, there is the creation of supernatural being. The two stories show the concept of a fixed order of events known as fate. First, laws exist that govern some parts of men's lives including afterlife and human mortality. Secondly, fate concerns itself with results that men and God cannot change or simply inevitable results from some events (Dolsen, 2011). There is an existence of unchangeable laws in both Homer and Virgil heroin story including the mortality of human beings. This is shown widely in the story when character after the character dies in war. For instance, in Virgil's, when Aeneas visits his father in Hades he talked to several warriors who had died in the Trojan War. The death of the warriors symbolizes the mortality of human beings. The period of limbo is also an unchangeable law that awaits the souls of the unburied after death. The two stories, therefore, shows the belief in life after death especially when Homer indicates the law by writing about the return Patroklos' spirit to remind Achilles that he must wander the world until he is properly buried. This, therefore, shows the belief of Virgil's and Homer on the unchangeable law (Dolsen, 2011). The second fate of unchangeable destined happening of an event is shown with the fall of Troy. Homer argues that the destruction of Troy had been foretold by Hekuba's son in his dream that Paris' will be the cause. A seer confirmed the prophecy and although Hekuba tried to change .