Gawain (fit 4)

1. When Gawain goes to the castle he changes, he gives up on his faith and becomes dishonest. When the Green Knight knicks him with the axe Gawain spiritually dies, the way he was becoming he is no longer. He is reborn when he leaves the Chapel because he returns to his old faith in his shield, the pentangle and the Virgin Mary, no longer in the girdle. He keeps the girdle, only to remind himself of when he became dishonest and gave up on his faith.

2. Gawain is reborn physically after he upholds his part of the deal to the Green Knight, and then believes that he is dead. He thinks the Green Knight is going to chop off his head, instead he only cuts it. He is reborn spiritually because he dies when he gives up his faith in God and the Pentangle, and is reborn after his visit with the Green Knight and takes back his old faith.

3) I think we are supposed to accept Sir Gawains point of view at the end because we are supposed to see that he feels bad about what he had done. He feels lesser because he gave up his faith and honesty when he before was prided because of those things. It becomes a lesson to the reader.
4. Gawain is in a way both ruined and not ruined as a knight. To himself he is ruined, he no longer has any respect for himself. But to everyone else he is not ruined because he came back alive and honorable and is still able to perform in battles.
5. I think the Lady is in control of the game. It was not her game, but she was the factor that made it a game. She could have chosen to leave Gawain alone and not temp him. If she would have left him alone he would have stayed honorable and kept his faith. But she chose to take part in the game and challenge him with temptation. She tricked him into becoming dishonest and to put his faith in the girdle instead of the pentangle. It was the decision she made that changed everything and made the challenge.