Sir Lancelot doesn't really do anything in the Lady of Shallot: he passes by the Lady's window, and she sees him passing by:- that's it.
The whole point of The Lady of Shallott is that nothing happens in it. Nothing ever happens in Shallott - that is why the Lady is so poisonously bored:
"I am half-sick of shadows," said
The Lady of Shallott.
So Sir Lancelot is not chivalrous, nor unchivalrous: nothing is real inside the four grey walls and four grey towers: it is a limbo, with no opportunity for human qualities of any kind.
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