Beowulf's Journey

put things into context. I was sad when King Hrothgar knew that he wouldn’t see Beowulf again (1875) because Hrothgar already had one foot in the grave and it made me realize how easy we have it now to travel when way back then it was an arduous journey. I also found it interesting on the depictions that they had of the women in this poem. I remember in our previous discussion how Queen Wealhtheow and Grendel’s Mother were portrayed as opposites of one another. Again,

Beowulf’s heroic adventure is a reflection of the importance of heroism in dealing with challenges that negatively affected the stability of the society in the early time periods. Annotated Bibliography Parker, James. “Beowulf is Back!” The Atlantic, vol. 319, issue 3, Apr. 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/beowulf-is-back/517773/. Accessed 12 Oct. 2017. Parker offers a very detailed summary and analysis of the Beowulf poem which touches on the main themes and styles of

As I was reading about our valiant Beowulf this week, one aspect that I noticed is the accompaniment of men that he had with him on his journeys. When Beowulf had set out to defeat Grendel, his small band of soldiers were loyally there by his side, ready to lay down their own lives in honor of the heroic code each of them had sworn by. “None of them expected he would ever see/ his homeland again or get back/ to his native place and the people who reared him” (47). They knew going into the battle

Hrothgar once sheltered Beowulf's father during a deadly feud, and the mighty Geat hopes to return the favor while enhancing his own reputation and gaining treasure for his king, Hygelac. At a feast before nightfall of the first day of the visit, an obnoxious, drunken Scylding named

The hot, arid air burned into my soul as I faced the barren desert surrounding me. My family and I were on a long-awaited vacation to the Grand Canyon, yet we had to drive over 15 hours - I radiated impatience throughout the journey. Walls of heat shrouded me as I gasped for air - my efforts were fruitless, however, swallowing nothing but fire. As the fire in my lungs grew, I looked out the window and into the looming suns heart. Suddenly, my eyes collapsed and tears engulfed them till they took

away from me. Singing has always been a huge part in my life from singing in talent shows to singing in the shower. My mother said that I never stopped singing. The journey of my singing began with my first School of Rock program and is now being pursued on my churches worship team today. Before I start to tell you about my singing journey, I feel as if I should explain why I started to sing in the first place. It all began when I was four years old, my older sister Kassidy would always, and I mean

The mother comes to fight for her dead son, who Beowulf had destroyed earlier. Although she does put up a fight in rearing Beowulf back to her swamp, she ultimately has no chance because of Beowulf’s mighty power. The symbolism behind this battle reveals that Beowulf is not a force to be messing with. After diving down into the depths of the mother’s swamp to fight off many more creatures, it portrays the sole idea of the fact behind which Beowulf

FOREWORD BY ROGER HOUSE My wife woke up one Monday morning and was making her way to the bathroom when she noticed a trail of blood. She was twelve weeks pregnant and now she was hemorrhaging. We called the doctor and were told we had lost our baby and needed to get to the hospital as soon as possible for surgery. All I could do was fall to the floor and cry. The next thing I did was call as many friends and churches as possible to ask them to pray. We made our way to the hospital, were put in

In The Maze Runner, the creators use the plotline of the journey throughout the Maze to prove how we as humans are left to make many choices and decisions in our lives and those decisions are what sculpt out whether our path in life will lead us to happiness or helplessness. Choices can influence our outcomes, and making the right choice in a crucial time will lead you to the success that you are working for. In the beginning of The Maze Runner, Thomas is unwillingly put into the Glade without any

A painting captures a single moment. Most of the time, the audience does not see what happens before and after the moment of the piece, but Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee is his depiction of Mark 4:35:39, a story that most children learn in Sunday School. Mark 4:35-36 tells the moments before the storm: “On that day, when evening had come, He told them, ‘Let’s cross over to the other side of the sea.’ So they left the crowd and took Him along since He was already in the