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    from the country of Denmark and Geatland (a region in southern Sweden). Beowulf is a warrior who comes from Geatland who come to the rescue of Hrothgar, the king of Danes, whose land is being destroyed by a monster. Beowulf encounters the monster Grendel, rips of his arm, leaving him mortally wounded and achieves victory. The people of Heriot Rejoice. But at night as the people are asleep, Grendel’s mother comes to avenge her son, killing one of Hrothgar’s men. Beowulf seeks her out in her cave at

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    Grendel, a fierce and evil spawn that descended from Cain, was terrorizing the Danes. King Hrothgar,the Danish king in Denmark, had his kingdom plagued by Grendel's attacks and terror for over 10 years. Grendel entered Heorot, the most grand of all Mead-Halls ever constructed, and ripped apart the Danish soldiers. Grendel could not be harmed by swords of mortal men, so King Hrothgar was becoming desperate, not for his own safety, because Grendel could not touch the kings throne, but for his own people

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    transformed into a movie ,there are many versions and all are different in their own ways. (Gunnarsson "Beowulf & Grendel") King Hrothgar is distinguishably characterized with scarce resemblance to (Zemeckis “Beowulf”) Hrothgar portrays human emotions in the first film “Beowulf 2005”, he shows sorrow for his soldiers or men that are being killed by Grendel, he also chose not to kill Grendel when he was a child. In the second film the animated one “Beowulf 2008” The King has a stoic type of personality

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    invasiveness of hand imagery throughout the text largely. Firstly, in the scenes regarding Grendel’s attack and victory (720-836), the use of hands is especially perverse. There are many words in this helping of the text which allude hands (mund, hond, and folmu) or hand whereabouts (clamm, grap, gripe), etc., mostly in reference to Grendel. This is important due to the fact that the use of hands allows Grendel. Furthermore, the obsession with hands helps to draw thoughtfulness to hand symbolism as power

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    the Danes. The monster, Grendel, makes its trek to Heorot to kill Danish warriors as they sleep. Beowulf ends up slaying Grendel, and his mother. After, Beowulf returns to Geatland and meets his match when he has to fight a dragon that is angered by its stolen treasure. In Beowulf, the constant battles between good and evil are portrayed through the altercations amongst Beowulf and his enemies. Grendel is indirectly labeled as an evil force from the beginning when he attacks possibly innocent Danish

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    with Grendel. This battle is where Grendel first arrives to the town. The second battle he faced was the battel with Grendel’s mother. The third battel was the last battle. Where Beowulf kills the fire expectorating dragon. In the battle with Grendel is where , “Grendel came, hoping to kill anyone he could trap on the trip to high Herot.”(pg 49 line 287) Grendel arrived at the village shrieking with irritation. Upon his arrival Beowulf and his men are expecting Grendel’s presence. As Grendel appears

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    man-like monster named Grendel, an offspring of the biblical killer Cain, has terrorized the aging Hrothgar: marauding Heorot, killing the king's thanes and ruling “the glittering hall after dark” (167). So times were pleasant for the people there until finally one, a fiend out of hell, began to work his evil in the world. Grendel was the name of this grim demon haunting the marches, marauding round

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    protagonist and antagonist on a journey that taught lessons to many. Our hero, Beowulf, and our outcast, Grendel, battle it out. The battle between hero and outcast creates a great quest for Beowulf. In Beowulf, our protagonist and hero are the same person. This particular quest helps our hero, Beowulf, find himself and fulfill his destiny. Our antagonist and the outcast through this quest is Grendel. The quest follows Beowulf, who starts as an ordinary guy not born into wealth, who was called to the

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    everything goes wrong for them. A similar case of this can be seen in the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. With this in mind the foul monster in Beowulf Grendel is known for his bloodlust from hunting down those who resided within Herot; slaughtering them whenever the sun went down for more than a decade, but even Grendel had something he feared. Even after the Grendel desecrated and abandoned Herot there was one thing he would not defile. In Herot sat Hrothgar the King of Danes’ throne, which was protected

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    The movie Beowulf and Grendel is based on the most famous poem in english literature. This movie is about a danish king who is known a Hrothgar killed a troll, but spare his young son who was hanging off a cliff. He killed the troll because he came onto his land and took a fish. The young son chopped his dead father head off and kept it, years after the young troll who is Grendel has supernatural instinct, began to seek revenge for his father death by killing Danes at the kings hall. The king is

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