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  • Essay / The representation of women in Sir Gawain And The Green...

    Similarly, Morgan's agency is marginalized to the point of irrelevance because, although she is the instigator of the project, she is barely referenced, which robs it of its power. However, this marginalization is not always successful (Fisher) and some women are therefore read in the opposite direction. Guinevere is often seen as "vital" (Neimneh 238) in her silence, but this may refer to her as the ideal wife and queen, a medieval Christian construct as Timothy's quote describes, rather than as