The symbolism of the belt in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight changes and grows as the poem progresses, adding Gawain's honor and sin to seemingly separate ideas of wild nature related to otherworldly and animal instincts. Piotr Sadowski, in his The Knight on His Quest: Symbolic Patterns of Transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, calls the belt a symbol of "complex moral truth" from which the other knights of the Round Table fail to learn, as Gawain does . . While I agree that the most important function of the belt is the message it conveys about morality regarding courteous behavior, I argue that the moral ideal set by the belt is not higher than that achieved by knights, but rather he is balanced between humanity and the divinity Gawain. strives – that is, the moral standard to which these knights are expected to adhere does not require absolute purity, as their codes of chivalry do, but takes into account the lesser sins into which human beings fall by their very nature. By combining chivalric honor, Gawain's sins, and the Green Knight's Afterlife into a single symbol, a moral truth emerges counter to Sadowski's stern, traditional chivalry that embraces humanity and nature, rather than rejecting them entirely in favor of divine ideals. When Bertilak's wife first appears Gawain's girdle is described simply as being of green silk and gold trim, which should immediately remind the reader of the description of the Green Knight when he enters Arthur's court. The combination of green and gold is the main feature of both the Green Knight and the belt, and since the belt receives no additional description at this time, it inherits its symbolic meaning from the symbolism of the Green Knight and the color green. The Green Knight is... in the center of the paper... because in a symbol he is fundamental to the theme of morality and to the overall meaning of the poem, because he comments on the nature of morality and what moral behavior a knight really is. Even courtly life does not need to be completely cleansed of human sin, and the natural instincts that all animals rely on, to be godly, as Gawain is, should not be seen as the primary characteristic of being moral. There should be a balance between humanity and piety, similar to Aristotle's idea of ​​a golden mean, which all these knights seek. By showing that knights should achieve this balance, the author extends his message to ordinary people, who looked to knights as models of morality. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight challenge contemporary ideals of morality, instead presenting a golden way that ordinary people would never have associated with their chivalric role models before.