Beowulf, An Adventurous And Bold Account Of The Trials And Tribulations Of An Anglo Saxon Hero

Beowulf is an old Anglo-Saxon story of a terrifying monster Grendel, Grendel travels to the Danes mead hall Heorot and while the danes expect it least he attacks killing countless men purely for the joys of doing so. Hrothgar king of the Danes calls for a warrior to fight this unruly beast. After 12 long years of grendel attacking Hrothgar's calls are answered and the great warrior Beowulf comes to kill Grendel. Beowulf travels to the land of the Danes from across the seas and in the first night he kills Grendel. Sadly for Beowulf Grendel has a mother that now seeks revenge for her son's death and Beowulf is asked to kill Grendel’s mother as well. Beowulf goes to where Grendel’s mother is staying and battled her to the death , Beowulf wins

These two versions of the same story are told from two different perspectives, Grendel’s (the monster) and Beowulf’s (the epic hero), the story told in Beowulf’s favor insinuates that Grendel is a terrible monster with no soul, whose whole life is dedicated to killing anything and everything in his sight. However, in Grendel, we see a completely different side of Grendel that isn’t over shadowed by the hatred that the people have on Grendel. In the book, Grendel, we learn about Grendel, and how he feels about himself. We are taken on a journey through the last twelve months of Grendel’s life and what lead up to his, as some would have described it in the

The epic poem Beowulf was written in Old English by in unknown author in England during the eighth or ninth century. This poem takes place in Scandinavia during the beginning of the sixth century and illustrates the idea of a traditional Anglo-Saxton hero. Beowulf is a god like hero who courageously sets out to defeat the monster Grendel as a way to repay his father’s debt. He also increases his heroic status by defeating Grendel’s mother and the dragon. Reputation and a person lineage is a theme used throughout the poem to describe kings, thanes, and monsters, and is the only thing Beowulf values the most. Because his father had already tainted the family name, and with the loss of the swimming match against Breca, Beowulf feels the need to push the limits of a hero in the fights against Grendel and Grendel’s mother to ensure that his reputation lives on.

He is now a great hero among the Geats and the Danes. The trials throughout the story are used to build pressure and also establish the character of the hero. The following step is Atonement with the father. In a lectured arranged to mentor Beowulf through a life of leadership, King Hrothgar warns young Beowulf of the dangers of pride and the uncertainties of old age. When Beowulf returns from the fight with Grendel's mother, he enters the hall with now Grendel's head. Not only has he defeated the beast but his mother too. The Danes celebrate and cheer when they discover Beowulf has succesfully completed another task and is alive and untouched. He gives all of the credit to God, saying "I barely survied the battle underwater. It was hard-fought, a desperate affair that could've gone badly; if God had not helped me." (1655-58) After hearing the news about Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother King Hrothgar is extremely pleased with Beowulf's accomplishmnt. He no longer has to live in fear for his kingdom. Hrothgar congratulates Beowulf and tells him with words of advice. He cautions Beowulf to beware of his pride by not getting the big head, due to his

Beowulf is an epic poem written in Anglo-Saxon times, by an unknown poet. Beowulf is a Geatish man who rescues the Danish people from evil, and helps save his own country from destruction. Beowulf, renowned for his bravery, and known as the strongest man alive, acquires the help of fourteen thanes to sail with him to Denmark. There he is involved in two battles with two evil monsters. He then fights another battle in his homeland with a Fire dragon. Without violence in Beowulf, heroism would be impossible as evidenced by Beowulf’s battles with Grendel, his mother, and the Fire dragon. Beowulf first shows his heroic nature in the fight with Grendel. After all the men in the great hall of Heorot fall asleep, Beowulf

Beowulf never finished fighting his demons. He defeated beasts in the sea, Grendel, Grendel's mother, battled with the Swedes, and finally fought the dragon until his death. To defeat evil we must shed the grip that it has over us. Grendel's "hatred rose higher, but his power had gone. He twisted in pain, and the bleeding sinews deep in his shoulder snapped, muscle and bone split and broke" (Burton 48). Beowulf disempowered Grendel by ripping of his arm. To rid ourselves from evil we must loosen its grip over us by eliminating its power. Grendel represents Beowulf's shadow. The suppressed shadow will surface to restore the imbalance in personality, like Grendel often surfaced from the swamp. Grendel is a symbol of the suppressed and unloved shadow, and he reeks terror on Herot to make his presence known. He represents the hidden neglected part of us. "Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us"(Bly 8). By storming into the mead hall and tearing the soldiers up before consuming them he represents this suppressed personality surfacing. Grendel is motivated by jealousy and anger. He is very envious and resentful towards the innocent people of the kingdom. He vents, and projects his anger onto society to restore a balance to Beowulf's personality.

Beowulf is an epic about a hero named Beowulf who fights and kills two monsters named Grendel and Grendel’s Mother. Beowulf travels from his home land of Sweden to Denmark, the land of King Hrothgar and the Danes; to help King Hrothgar by killing Grendel, a monster that haunts Herot, Hrothgar’s famous mead-hall, nightly, killing Hrothgar’s people for 12 years. One night Grendel sneaks into Herot, kills a Geat, and then grabs a “sleeping” Beowulf. While in Grendel’s grip, Beowulf uses his strength of thirty men to tear Grendel’s arm from his body. Grendel runs back to his lair and dies a painful death. Beowulf’s victory is rewarded with a feast, gold, and treasures, which Beowulf brings home and gives to his king.

The epic poem Beowulf contains a courageous hero. He embodies the side of good and epitomizes the characteristics of a hero. He runs into multiple perilous battles against gruesome monsters. These monsters include ones such as Grendel, Grendel's Mother, and the fire breathing dragon. The monsters symbolize a life filled with darkness, evil, and sin. The first monster Beowulf comes to slaughter goes by the name of Grendel. He was a “[monster] born of cain, murderous creatures banished by God”(20-22).

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem, which was written between the 8th and the early 11th century, is one of the oldest English literature. The poem is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to help Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose hall was attacked by a monster called Grendel. After Beowulf killed him, Grendel's mother attacked the hall and then was also killed by Beowulf. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf fighted and killed a

Beowulf took a risky excursion to the cave which Grendel’s mom lived. It was underwater and he was unsure how far under he had to go in order to find her. He thought about defeating her the same way he defeated Grendel. However, her drive of revenge increased her strength, causing them both to fall during battle and she upsurge faster than beowulf and began to sit on him.

Beowulf is the poems of a warrior who comes to help the King of the Danes because his kingdom is being destroyed by a monster named Grendel. Beowulf used his strength to slay Grendel Heorot, and then to killed Grendel’s mother in her underwater home. Beowulf later becomes the king of the Geats and rules for fifty years. When a dragon begins to pose a threat to Geatland, Beowulf and his servant Wiglaf set off to defeat it. Beowulf succeeds in slaying the dragon but dies while doing so. Grendel is a monster that is half-man and half- monster. He is the first monster that Beowulf kills. Also he is huge and had superhuman strength, Grendel is the descendant of Cain who represents evil. Grendel’s mother is another monster that Beowulf kills. She

Beowulf fights with his bare hands to prove that he doesn’t need weapons to fight Grendel. Beowulf kills Grendel leading to the cause of why Grendel’s mother is after him. Grendel’s mother symbolizes rage and vengefulness after the death of her son. She only becomes a threat once Grendel is killed and she kills out of grief. In defeating his mother, Beowulf sets aside his on warriors’ vengeful nature and realizes that there is no honor in killing out of

Beowulf is longest and greatest early Anglo-Saxon poem which was composed in England sometime in the eighth century AD by a literate scop. This poem was created in the oral poetic tradition. This poem is considered as an epic because it is a long narrative poem which composed in an elevated style, dealing with the glories of hero (Tolkien 24). The setting of this epic is the six century in Denmark and southern Sweden. The protagonist, Beowulf is a noble warrior represents the goodness battles against the evil monsters- Grendel, Grendel 's mother and the fiery dragon in order to save his country. Beowulf 's victory over Grendel and his mother shows the power of goodness can defeat the evil forces. Even though

Beowulf takes human form, but his abilities and strengths surpass that of a human. When Hrothgar's kingdom fell to the vicious power of a monster named Grendel, Beowulf comes to the aid without hesitation. Everyone before Beowulf who attempted defeat against Grendel never succeeded. Due to Beowulf's superhuman strength during his fight with Grendel, "the horrible shrieks of pain and defeat, the tears torn out of Grendel's taut throat, hell's captive caught him in the arms of him who of all men on earth was the strongest"(361-365). After Beowulf defeats Grendel, he develops a new enemy, Grendel's mother. Grendel's mother embodies a sea creature larger than Beowulf. Amid the fight with Grendel's mother, Beowulf "raised his his arms and seized

In lines 572-573, Beowulf says, “Often, for undaunted courage / fate spares the man it has not already marked.” In other words, if one’s fate has not been determined yet, it can be achieved through courageous behavior. The epic poem Beowulf, written by Seamus Heaney, reveals main triumphs of a great Scandinavian hero, named Beowulf. A narrative composed toward the end of the first millennium is based on the Anglo-Saxon society. During the sequence of the events, Beowulf has to face several challenges in order to protect the Danes, or the residents of Denmark from the great dangers. Later, he returns to his own country to protect the Geats, or the residents of Sweden, from another threat. The poem reveals the three provocations that stood in Beowulf’s way. These were composed of the monsters Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon. Not only does the story direct the characteristics of the Anglo-Saxons by including the brutes in it, the epic also reveals the relationship to their fears.