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Compare And Contrast Beowulf And Sir Gawain

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It's quite simple. Beowulf is often praised for his strength and greatness, along with his pursue for personal goals; while Sir Gawain is merely revealed as a true hero, he's someone who you, as a reader, can actually relate to. Beowulf is prince, while Sir Gawain is a mere knight. Sir Gawain humbles himself down and says he's feeble minded and of the least strength between all the knights, and he strongly desires to take the Green knight's challenge to avoid risking Arthur's life and put his less valuable one at stake. Hence, they both serve kings and are good hearted to their own extent. Beowulf feels quite fictional because he's too great, while Sir Gawain seems more real, more human and simple. Both are presented with great strength, Beowulf with unseeingly great strength and Sir Gawain with …show more content…

While he puts his life at risk for honor and the king, he's still scared and shows so. In the end his humanity leads him to a loss and the story's end while Beowulf, in his inhumane greatness, leads a dangerous but sure victory. They both have true rigid morals yet Beowulf is arrogant, he lacks humility; Sir Gawain is always true and humble, we can truly see a human hero and not a fictional one.

Beowulf is a an epic poem from the Anglo-Saxon period (449 A.D. - 1066 A.D.) While Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is from the Medieval period, the Middle English period. The Anglo-Saxon period gave birth to the epic tradition of long narrative poems that are highly stylized and formal in structure. They are in oral art form and combine entertainment, history, morality, and encouragement in an

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