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Beowulf’s triumphs are short lived due to another attack on Herot. This time, Grendel’s mother comes to the great mead hall to avenge her son. The battle between Grendel’s mother and Beowulf differs greatly from the previous battle with the beast’s son. After another attack, Beowulf now must seek out his new enemy, and fight her on her own turf. As it stood, the scores were even between the monsters and the Danes, but Beowulf now looked for victory over the monsters, not revenge. Beowulf also had to regain his reputation. He had just won a trophy, when the bigger, badder bully came up to him and took it straight from his grasp. Now Beowulf traveled to the burning lake, which proved a test of its own. He then swam to the bottom of the lake where the monster resided. All of this just to get to the monster shows that this brave hero would do anything to set the scores right for his people and for the glory that came with it.

Beowulf faces his own monsters. During his time before he takes the crown, Beowulf steps up and becomes a hero for his people by facing the monster Grendel. Next, his battle is with Grendel’s mother, who is seeking to avenge her son’s death,

Beowulf is a Geatish hero who fights the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a fire-breathing dragon. Beowulf's boasts and encounters reveal him to be the strongest, warrior around. Beowulf increase his reputation by fighting monsters and dragons. This was important to him because he wanted to protect his people. “Beowulf, a prince of the Geats, had killed Grendel, Ended the grief” (Raffel,49 829-831). Beowulf had killed this monster name Grendel that no one could ever defeat except him and the people from the Geats were thanking Beowulf for defeating this monster. Little by little he was gaining reputation to his name by defeating stronger opponents. When he kills Grendel’s mom he gains more reputation from the people and it was important to him because he wants to be the strongest warrior/king. Beowulf always wants to fight alone because

The story of Beowulf is a heroic epic chronicling the illustrious deeds of the great Geatish warrior Beowulf, who voyages across the seas to rid the Danes of an evil monster, Grendel, who has been wreaking havoc and terrorizing the kingdom. Beowulf is glorified for his heroic deeds of ridding the land of a fiendish monster and halting its scourge of evil while the monster is portrayed as a repugnant creature who deserves to die because of its evil actions. In the epic poem, Beowulf the authors portrays Grendel as a cold-hearted beast who thrives on the pain of others. Many have disagreed with such a simplistic and biased representation of Grendel and his role in the epic poem. John Gardner in his book, Grendel set out to change the

Beowulf is a story of dual conflicts. Beowulf’s external conflicts of his physical battles in turn develop his internal conflicts of arrogance and pride. Although Beowulf overcomes many obstacles physically, his internal conflict of hubris leads to his eventual and unnecessary death. Beowulf is able to overcome Grendel not only physically, but also mentally through his pride. Beowulf counts himself “as dangerous any day as Grendel. /

Beowulf, the defender of Hrothgar and Heorot, exhibits far more complicated (and less sincere) shades of revenge than the Grendel’s mother. At the end of the day, Beowulf’s goal is to become the preeminent warrior in all the land. In his society, the only way to gain such widespread celebrity is through courageous and self-endangering acts. Beowulf masks these deeds with a façade of seeking revenge; he supposedly comes to Heorot to save the Danes from Grendel’s terror, but his true motives lie in becoming a hero. His reward is not the pride of doing a good deed; Beowulf is rewarded with lavish and expensive gifts.

Grendel is evil; powerful and he strikes fear and tenor in all who see him, Beowulf is the hero of the story. Grendel who has killed many men. And both characters have monsters in them from the banished demons such as Grendel. Grendel and Beowulf is two monsters that are born from different demons. Beowulf has stood up too many monsters. Grendel is presented as a coward. Beowulf succeeds and defeats Grendel.

He battles many different evils and prevails every time with little to no help. Beowulf is a hero in this story, and for every hero there needs to be a villain, and in this piece there are three. The three villains are Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the Dragon. These creatures are very powerful, no man but Beowulf would even dare stand up to fight them alone.

When Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon terrorized Herot, Beowulf was the one who sought revenge for what he did to the men that may not have followed him anyway. He was loyal to Hrothgar by protecting the land along with his people,

Beowulf is an epic style poem, based on the Anglo-Saxon time period. It tells the story of Beowulf, a Geatish human, who joins forces with Hrothgar, King of Denmark, to defeat Grendel, mother of Grendel, and a dragon in three major battles. Beowulf is strongly affected by the reoccurring theme of “darkness.” This darkness is portrayed in several ways throughout the story. The darkness in this story helps portray the evil of the antagonists.

Beowulf is disciplined, coming to fight Grendel without the hopes of bribery. He is courageous by deciding to fight a man-eating monster without his sword. Beowulf’s perseverance with defeating Grendel’s Mother, even when his borrowed sword did no damage. Self-reliant in always battling by himself. Beowulf’s honor for his kind and family shines greatly in his first introduction to the Dance, “We are Geats/ Men who follow Higlac. My father/ Was a famous soldier, known far and wide/ As a leader of men./ His name was Edgetho” (260-263). He is quick to start is job in defeating monsters, industriousness in his work attitude. Hospitable towards Unferth even though his is not treated in kind. And finally, Beowulf’s battles with both Grendel and Grendel’s Mother were both metaphors of evil vs. good, of light vs. dark, with Beowulf being a positive aspect, henceforth representing this idea of journeying for truth of the world.

This epic takes place in a Scandinavian society in which the people’s lives revolve around constant feuding and warfare (Lecture 12/7). In order to be a well-renown warrior, one must make a name for themselves through boasting and showing their skill in battle. When Beowulf, a Geat, hears of Grendel, a monster terrorizing the Danish people, he sees a great opportunity to not only defend the Danes but to assert his worth. He arrives in Denmark and is given the approval by Hrothgar, the Danish King, to assist

There is a hero and a villain in every story, we have: Batman and The Joker, Spider-Man and The Green Goblin, Thor and Loki, and of course Beowulf and Grendel. In the epic “Beowulf” our two main characters are Beowulf the hero of the story, and Grendel the evil demon who terrorized the world. In the epic, Beowulf and Grendel are noticeably different, but at the same time alike in many ways. The people in the story may not have notice the similarities, but they could not be hidden from the peering eye of the reader. In the story Beowulf was was brave, while Grendel was cowardly, Beowulf was helpful, while Grendel only wanted to hurt people; in comparison, they were both unnaturally strong and very arrogant.

The hero is one to remember. Strong, skilled, courageous, and honorable, Beowulf modeled everything that Anglo-Saxons believed a hero should be. The Anglo-Saxons believed that a warrior should perform great feats to win honor for himself. Beowulf exceeds that expectation by slaying Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon that plagues his kingdom. Beowulf also proves that he is as great a leader as he is a warrior by laying down his own life to protect his people. In fact, some have said that his only fault is that he is too

In Beowulf, the conflict between good and evil is the story’s most universal theme. The storyteller is very clear who is good and who is evil, Beowulf represents the good and the ability to act selflessly when help is needed from others. Good is also shown throughout the epic as having the ability to abolish villainy. Evil is presented by Grendel, his mother, and a dragon, whose purpose in life is to make the lives of humanity a little more miserable.