Dragon as a Metaphor

As humans, we all possess great qualities. We develop memories that we can cherish forever. Hopes and dreams help us strive to do great things. However, we all have our demons that we all tend to conceal. The famous poem “Beowulf” is renowned for the battles against Beowulf and many monsters. The battles in the poem pose as metaphorical battles. Beowulf defeating the monsters represent him trying to overcome his demons. The last battle was between him and a dragon. To the reader’s surprise, he lost the battle. The dragon represents Beowulf’s greatest demon. Despite the dragons that Beowulf faced that are external, my dragons are more internal.

epic poems, dragons play major antagonistic roles. The foe of Beowulf and the two dragons in The

Defeating Dragons and Minutes That Matter have many similarity and differences! Defeating Dragons is about a group of teens who help the local people of Aniak, Alaska they work 24 hours 7 days a week.Minutes That Matter is about a group of teens who send phones to soldiers who were overseas so they could talk to there family.These two groups both help people,whether it's helping them communicate with their family or helping them if they're hurt.They also are different in some ways Defeating Dragons help if there's an emergency, and Minutes That Matter help the soldiers keep in touch with their friends and family.

In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Irving uses the motif of darkness multiple times as he refers to a “dark grove,” “black smothering mud,” (Irving, “Devil” 329). These references to the color black create a tone of mystery because the color black and darkness carry the connotation of mystery and the unknown. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Irving uses the color black to refer to setting as well as he talks about ghosts that “walk in darkness” (Irving, “Legend” 12). These references to darkness are symbolic of the unknown territory of the United States, and they illustrate the mystery and the unexplored that the America’s had at the

The story begins with the description of a deep night and two men bent by their lonely fire. These men are speaking about a strange, mysterious creature, which seems to ruin everything on its way. They are talking about a dreadful dragon, which is described with much detail: “This dragon, they say his eyes are fire. His breath a white gas; you can see him bum across the dark lands”, “Passing, the black brunt of its shoulder smashed the remaining horse and rider a hundred feet against the side of a boulder, wailing, wailing, the dragon shrieking, the fire all about, around, under it, a pink, yellow, orange sun-fire with

Throughout the novel one can notice a constant reference to the darkness, as symbolizing a heaviness and resignation that afflicts deeply the characters and also the atmosphere of story.

Thus far, Beowulf has killed two man-like monsters. Beowulf’s last battle with a dragon is the final substantial fantastic element in this epic poem. W.P. Ker, a nineteenth-century critic, asserts the dragons are

Beowulf is the archetype of the dragon slayer, the hero who faces death to save a threatened community. There are many modern day heroes that would also be a part of this exclusive archetype. For example, Owen Grady from “Jurassic World” also shows characteristics of a hero, very similar to Beowulf.

Herot Hall is full of mirth and laughter, while the rest of the town is sleeping and covered by the dark of night, the men of Herot are singing and feasting in their well light hall. The Supernatural Intervention archetype is found in Beowulf belief that God will deliver him from Grendel if that is the Lord’s plan. He also believes his supernatural strength is from God or the gods, and without them, he would be

Beowulf is an epic poem whose earliest surviving copy was written in 1000 A.D. The story consists of three thousand one hundred and eighty two lines that follow the life of the title character. The original author of the epic poem is unknown mainly because it started as a verbal tale passed down orally through the ages. Finally someone wrote it down in a document now called the Nowell Codex. The epic tale is centered on Beowulf and his actions in an adventure to repay a debt owed by his father to Hrothgar, a Danish king. A gargantuan monster that is terrorizing Hrothgar’s mead hall is Beowulf’s target and Beowulf sails across the sea to aid his father’s

Almost every culture is represented by a story-like poem called an epic. One of the oldest, written around 1000 C.E. is called Beowulf. Originally, this story was told orally, but much later was written in old English. This language was a hybrid of many other languages and has developed into the modern English we have today. Beowulf is about an Anglo-Saxon warrior who embarks on a journey to another land to kill a demon named Grendel, however, things don't go exactly to plan and Beowulf is faced with two creatures he must battle. Beowulf represents the ideal warrior for the Anglo-Saxon culture. The foundational principles of the culture and the motivations that drive Beowulf

     In the Book of the Apocalypse, Rome is represented by several allegories: the beast of the land, the beast from the sea, the harlot, Babylon, and the dragon. The Beowulf-poet also manipulates the dragon allegory to represent Rome, but his dragon represents not Rome, pure and simple, but a hostile area of the (former) Roman empire, the Romanized Britain or the Roman-British .

Originating in the Anglo-Saxon period, the epic poem Beowulf portrays a legendary hero. Beowulf established the earlier form of heroism, and was then later introduced in to the English culture. Praised and admired by many people, Beowulf possesses several distinct traits that allow him to be defined perfectly as an ideal Anglo-Saxon hero; his eagerness to seek glory and fame, rather than richness and treasures, his loyalty and graceful attitude not only to his rulers but also to his followers, and his contradictory beliefs of faith and fate

Folklore is a term used to describe the traditional beliefs and customs that every community had which were passed down the generations through word of mouth. Each community had their own folklores whereby they used oral traditions such us proverbs, tales and poems to ensure that everyone in the community, especially the children, knew and was aware of the customs. This helped develop a sense of pride and respect for the people’s culture since they understood why some of the cultural practices were done and the consequences of going against these practices and customs. Folklores may lack substantial evidences but people still keep faith in their beliefs due to the respect and trust they have for their ancestors who were actually believed to

“A kingdom is in turmoil as the old King Roland dies and its worthy successor, Prince Peter, must do battle to claim what is rightly his. Plotting against him is the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. Yet with every plan there are holes – like Thomas’s terrible secret. And the determined Prince Peter, who is planning a daring escape from his imprisonment…” (very first page)