It can be said that Gawain's main fault was to sin against courtesy. If courtesy was actually what he was tested on, Gwaine had no chance of passing that test. He understood courtesy as respecting women, obeying and serving them. The Lady's idea of ​​courtesy was entirely different and included adultery in its meaning. Due to the coexistence of these two meanings, Gawain had no choice but to encroach on one of them. The concept of penance and absolution does not change when courtesy is what Gawain is tested on. What changes is the scope of the allegory. In the first understanding of Gawain's sin, his weakness of character was a personal fault for which he was penalized, but which was later forgiven. In the second, we can say that man in general cannot achieve perfection and is destined to sin. There is no way to escape it. But sin will be forgiven if it is admitted and atoned for