Comparing Medea, Sir Gawain And The Green Knight And Canterbury Tales

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Medea, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Canterbury tales are stories that show a relationship between humans and divide by God is physically present, a journey the human endures, and humans turn to the gods for forgiveness. In the story of Medea and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight both of them describes the divide being physically present. In Medea the Greek Helios gives Medea a golden chariot to fly away with, while in Sir Gawain; the Green Knight is himself; a Pagan divide while he talks to Gawain.
In Canterbury tales and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight humans have to deal with a journey in England. In Canterbury tales the journey is in the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury England. In Sir Gawain the journey is Gawain going to