Hardships In Beowulf

Though Jeannette gave her all to support her family, she did the same for herself without anyone’s support. She understood what it was meant to be poverty at a very young age and realised that she could not have what others did. While Jeannette didn’t have money, she was smart and resourceful to achieve whatever she could for herself. When Jeannette was young, she had already decided that if she wanted to do something for herself, she was going to have to do it herself. An example of this was when she herself to have buckteeth, and promptly said, “I decided to make my own braces,” and she did (Wall 200). In spite of Jeannette being underprivilaged and with less money, she found ways time and time again to succeed.

To honor the Beowulf’s heroic life and battles, I’ve been assigned as one of his closest warriors to exclaim his appellation and share the stories of his battles. One of the citizen came up to me and asked, “I heard that Beowulf was an amazing guy, but I never fully knew him. Could you tell me more about him?” I was extremely excited as this man was the first person to ever ask me about Beowulf. “Beowulf was a strong leader and a great friend. Although he might not have been a very humble man, he was nowhere near being a bully. He’s the type of man that would belittle anyone who hurts the weak and innocent. Beowulf was mettlesome and was never intimidated by any menace.” The man’s eyes were already widen. “He sounds like a guy I would wanna be protected by,” the citizen said, “Can you tell me about one of his battles?” I prepared myself as I was about to begin a long lecture of how strong Beowulf was.

First and foremost, Beowulf is a very strong warrior; he hails from the land of the Geats and is their best soldier. He is what many would call a thrill seeker and is drawn to danger, adventure but most of glory. Beowulf sets off in search of such glory and lets the seas take him where it may; this leads him to the town of Herot. Once there he is given a great opportunity by the great King Hrothgar, to prove his strength and obtain much glory. The task is to kill the terrible creature that haunts the town night after night, a creature named Grendel. Beowulf finds out more

~“He was happy,Now, with the night's fierce work; the Danes Had been served as he’d boasted  he’d serve them; Beowulf,  A prince of the Geats had, killed Grendel, Ended the grief, the sorrow,the suffering  Forced on Hrothgar’s helpless people By a  bloodthirsty fiend.” In the book “Beowulf”  on Page: 34 Line: 828-833.  Beowulf killed Grendel, the Danes greatest enemy, and became their hero.

She said phrases such as “God will see those who waste their live reading useless books when they should be about their work” (MacLeod267). The general disapproval of education closed any possible doors for the family to improve their situation. The son was clearly struggling with getting an education because he would “wonder at [his] own stupidity in thinking [he] was somehow free and go on doing well in school” (MacLeod271). The son is not doing well in school but the mother, thinking the books were useless, does not care about him struggling in school. Perhaps if she were to get a job to help support the house her son would be able to get a better education instead of being forced to become a fisherman and barely support the family. The mother made it border-line impossible to further education when she would “slap [his] youngest sister so hard that the print of her hand was scarletly emblazoned upon her daughter’s cheek while the broken-spined paperback fluttered useless to the floor”(MacLeod271). Confidence is fundamental to further ones future but when your schooling has been oppressed confidence in it scarce, making it difficult to trust yourself to become any future job opportunities involving education and no physical work. Even if any the family members became very successful the mother would not accept any help from someone who is not a fisherman. The mother thinks their family having to work for their family in physical labour is how life should be, even if

The human condition is defined by Dictionary.com as being the positive and negative aspects of existence as a human being, especially the inevitable events such as birth, childhood, adolescence, love, sex, reproduction, aging, and death (Dictionary.com 1). Although humans place confidence in being remarkably different from their ancestors, humans share countless amounts of similarities over time that do not modify. Mortals cannot adjust these aspects, and will always experience them. These elements to consider range from loneliness to death. The poem, Beowulf, written by an unknown author demonstrates countless facets of the human condition, including loneliness, vengeance, greed, violence, gifting, mortality, and envy.

Beowulf shows his wisdom in two other ways in this same battle with Grendel. For instance, Beowulf fights with only his hands (Beowulf 48). Countless warriors have tried to defend themselves against Grendel with swords and shields. Beowulf knows this and knows that not once has Grendel been touched by a blade. So, Beowulf fights with only his hands in this great and terrible battle. Beowulf does not rely on any weapon or anyone besides himself and it works wonders for him. Beowulf also makes another strong strategic decision. He never releases Grendel’s arm (Beowulf 48). If Beowulf had released the monster’s arm there is no doubt he would have died. Beowulf would have been ripped apart by Grendel’s sharp claws. Instead, Beowulf proves his battle wisdom and never lets his grip slip off of that arm until it is severed from Grendel’s body. Beowulf shows that he has that trait of being able to use his wisdom in battle during his fight with Grendel.

They praise sir Beowulf, thanking him greatly. Yet little did this town or Beowulf know the agony yet to come. Grendel was indeed a monster, but a monster who was the spawn of a cruel creature. The slain monster’s mother, a she-wolf would be the hero’s next challenge. He would travel to the home of the monster’s mother, to yet again engage in the act of battle. They shall meet in the deep depths of the marshy hell. Beowulf would try to defeat the she-wolf with his sword but would not be enough. As he begins to become beaten, and weak, he sees a sword that may be to his advantage. “A heavy sword, hammered by giants, strong and blessed by their magic, the best of all weapons but so massive that no ordinary man could lift its carved and decorated length” (page 54 line 530-535) He raised thy mighty sword and struck the devil in the neck, cutting the entire head off. Hrothgar’s men watch the monster’s lake filled with blood. Thinking all hope and gone and mighty Beowulf had been killed. Yet as the old men begin to whisper the mighty hero rises from the lake, only holding the she-wolfs head and the giant’s sword. The Beowulf would return with the head and place the monsters head in front of the

What are the challenges of the Anglo-Saxon life, that Beowulf faces? The strongest competitors Beowulf faced were Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon.

To begin, one of the many ways that Beowulf was different than Grendel is that Beowulf was brave. Every night Grendel snuck into Herot Hall to destroy King Hrothgar’s men. He did this while hiding in the shadows, sneaking around in the dead of night, and attacking while the men we asleep and at there most vulnerable. These are not the characteristics the brave, these are the characteristics of a foul, loathsome, cowardly beast. Mean while, Beowulf liked to meet a problem head on, in this case the problem was Grendel himself. Determined Beowulf sailed to Denmark to defeat Grendel, telling Hrothgar that he will take Grendel’s life with his bare hands. As told in the story, “ That mighty protector of men/ Meant to hold the monster till it’s life/ leaped out” (Raffel, 1963, l. 366-368). And when Beowulf got the chance to do just that, Grendel took the cowards road, “Grendel’s one thought

He began to remove his iron breast-mail, took off the helmet and handed his attendant the patterned sword, a smith’s masterpiece, ordering him to keep the equipment hoarded. And before he bedded down, Beowulf, that prince of goodness, proudly asserted: ‘When it comes to fighting, I count myself as dangerous any day as Grendel. So it won’t be a cutting edge I’ll wield to mow him down, easily as I might. He has no idea of the arts of war, of shield or sword-play, although he does possess a wild strength. No weapons,

In Beowulf ancestry determines who a person is and where they stand in society. A

In the story Beowulf , it tells the epic tale of the battle between Grendel and Beowulf and the struggle Beowulf went through to defeat the monster that is ruining society and the life that the people in Scandinavia lived. When you compare the story to the life we live now you can see some astonishing similarities. Beowulf holds some traits of today's monster-slayers hold to defeat the modern day monsters. Although today’s monsters may not be demons killing everyone besides the king, they still play a vital role in hurting our society and our way of life. The biggest monster today that is dooming our society is entitlement and people believing that they deserve everything and the monster-slayers are the people who work hard to get where they

The Anglo-Saxon time period was an era full of storytelling and lyrical poems. Storytellers had created an oral tradition during this period as they memorized, adapted, and passed along stories and songs. Many of the Anglo-Saxon stories were epics, which are long poems that tell a story of a heroic deed or a legendary event. These epics always included an epic hero, or a larger-than-life figure that exhibits courage, virtue, and skill against an evil, opposing figure. In addition to the epic hero, the Anglo-Saxon’s incorporated their values into the epics.

Growing up Noemi’s father had a well-paying job as a welder, she says “At that period of time I do not remember wanting anything…” Noemi has 5 siblings 2 sisters and 3 brothers. At seven years old Noemi’s father was asked to take a job as a pastor in Washington state. Even though they had asked him to take that job, he was paid under half his wage because the church considered him young. He was 30 years old. After that all the kids had to take jobs she was 8 years old working in the field and going to school.