Compare and contrast notions of love, desire, and morality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron. What challenges and obstacles do the central characters endure and does their understanding of love evolve and deepen as a result? Through examining the plot, speech, and the interactions between the central characters, what knowledge and philosophical insights do you gain regarding love’s varied and sometimes elusive, paradoxical, and enigmatic nature?
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