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To elaborate, Beowulf shows loyalty to the Geats and his king, Hygelac, by notifying them of his plans to travel to the land of the Danes and help the Danish King, Hrothgar, defeat Cain’s descendant, Grendel, who has been terrorizing Hrothgar’s mead-hall for twelve years. Beowulf is loyal and seeks the approval of the Geats and Hygelac before anything else, and Beowulf most likely would never have left the land of the Geats to help the Danes if his people and Hygelac did not approve of his plans

aid the kind of the Danes. Hrothgar built the great mead-hall called Heorot. The mead-hall represents Hrothgar’s success in building a powerful military and social entity. The mead-hall” Meant to be a wonder of the world forever;” (Beowulf.69-71) a place of light and warmth during the cold winter was attacked by a powerful demon called Grendel. Grendel resented the happiness of his neighbors and attacked Heorot for twelve winters leaving the hall empty for years. Once Beowulf learns of Hrothgar’s

linked to the Heorot Hall described in Beowulf. To some degree, in the poem Beowulf and the novel The Hobbit, both show the inheritance of responsibility

1-C The similarity between Christ and Beowulf is quite interesting. During this book, Beowulf is represented as some sort of a savior because he was able to successfully kill Grendel and free everyone from worries. Jesus was also seen as a savior for a variety of people, since he had the ability to cure people and get rid of their worries as well. Also, they had a number of occurrences leading up to their own deaths. Such as the fighting with Beowulf between Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and lastly

as outcasts” (36-45). The purpose of using this archetype is to show the distinction between good and evil. The people in the mead hall are the supporters of good. They follow the Anglo-Saxon warrior codes and are on Beowulf’s side. Grendel is opposite of this ideal. He lives in solitude in a cave at the bottom of the lake and upon hearing of the partying in the mead hall feels enraged. To further emphasize the archetype, he raids Herot only during the nighttime. This shows the degree to which he

Beowulf strikes one as a strong man who could defeat any monster. Due to this belief, the audience never sees him training to fight the monsters. Before fighting Grendel, Beowulf chats with the people of Heorot, including King Hrothgar, in the mead hall. Before Grendel’s mother attacks, the people believe that the city is safe with the defeat of Grendel, so there was no more need for training. As a result, Beowulf found himself, once again, unprepared for the fight he encountered with the monster

to war. ”The two alternatives for ending a blood-feud were 1) paying "wergild" -- the man price, or 2) arranging a marriage” (CITE). The Germanic tribes such as the Anglo-Saxons hated peace; fighting was more honorable. The epic poem begins in a mead-hall, called Heorot, where the king’s warriors gather to drink, receive gifts, and listen to stories sung by the scops. Scops were “an Old English bard or poet” (CITE). The noise from Heorot angers a horrible demon, Grendel,

concept of sharing wealth and treasures is widely demonstrated throughout the poem. In Germanic culture kings as well as warriors are expected to share their wealth with their tribe. For example, the poem mentions that king Hrothgar builds a great mead-hall where he would distribute his

The story of Beowulf represents the merging of two cultural belief systems: paganism and Christianity. Historically, the Anglo-Saxon culture was based upon pagan practices- idolatry, worship of many Gods and a specific warrior’s code of conduct. Beowulf was born of this culture as a legend passed down through centuries by oral tradition until shortly after their conversion to Christianity. It was finally preserved in written form by an obviously Christian author in an attempt to unify the two belief

Symbolic Interactionism Theory George Herbert Mead studied and used an interactionist approach for many years. He was a philosophy professor at the university of Chicago. Mead thought that the true test to any theory is whether or not it is useful in solving complex social problems (EM Griffin, p.83). So Mead decided to study the procedures of communicating, specifically with symbols, the theory was titled Symbolic Interactionism. Mead declared that our gift of language, our ability to manipulate