Comparative Essay on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Monty Python and the Holy Grail It is impossible for a human being to fulfill all the ideals of the Chivalric Code and the seven Cardinal Virtues. Christian knights lived by the Chivalric Code to gain honor, but it was not possible even for the best and purest knights to always stick to these conventions of courtesy, generosity, loyalty, consistency, chastity, poverty, valor and skill. …showed first 75 words of 1042 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1042 total…hand, ends not as hopeless as Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Even though it proves, even Sir Gawain as the best knight fails to be a perfect knight, one can come very close. Both, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, point out that there is no such thing as a perfect knight. Even those who are considered to be the best fail in one way or another.