Category: Beowulf

The poem of Beowulf involves ambiguity between the portrayals of humans and monsters. It reveals the struggles of humanity finding a balance between predatorial and agonistic aggressions through conflicts which also indicate how the beast-like nature of man reflects human society. Throughout Beowulf, the monstrosity of the antagonists seem to share more relations with man’s…

Both Gilgamesh and Beowulf are structurally and temporally in two parts: one at the height of the hero’s lives, the second all through their declining years. In Gilgamesh, section one offers Gilgamesh and Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven; in Beowulf, phase one consists of Beowulf`s struggles with Grendel and Grendel`s mother. Part two of…

Throughout this poem, there are many contrasting ideas regarding certain issues, but the two most ironic are the Christian and Pagan themes. During the progression of this story, the characters display actions that lead to different types of beliefs. Although the people in this story had a firm faith in God, terrible events caused them…

Whoever you are or wherever in life you live, everybody faces hardship. The question is how people answer. Beowulf faces the same problem as we are today, which challenges his character in different forms. Beowulf’s story has three main opponents: Grendel, his mother, and lastly the dragon. It is the hardships of life that Grendel,…

Yes, I had the manners of Hrothgar and Beowulf. Nowadays, people want to elect politicians as their leaders to do good things for nations, their countries, and their beloved world. But what is it that needs to be a good leader? We see a great number of leaders around us. But there are very few…

Saving a baby from a burning building. Spending time with passing ones. Standing up for political rights. These acts look odd when they are put together, but they do exemplify one shared foundation, courage. Courage is the ability to show determination in times of risk and strength in the face of danger. It is the…

For several stories, the protagonists’ pride is usually shown and explained by the narrator or secondary characters. Yet in Anglo-Saxons’ Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney,, his pride is boosted by himself; he takes satisfaction in knowing he is letting everyone know of his value and importance to the world. Before each battle, he showed up…

As inside the earlier traditional epic verses of Greece and Rome, the characters are generally shown in common shape, however too now and again as the artist considers they must be. Sometimes, the writer breaks his objective tone to offer an ethical judgment on one of his characters, even though for the foremost portion, he…

The fear of what is inside you, your desire for revenge, your lack of control over your impulses, and your dark side, is the greatest fear presented in the story Beowulf, a book by Robert Nye. Grendel’s mother, Cain’s wife, a female without a name, represents what is dark inside ourselves. She is filled with…

The force that causes and controls all events, so that you cannot change or control how events unfold, is called fate. Along with the various themes presented in ‘Beowulf’, the theme of fate is one of the key ones, and it can be traced primarily concerning death and its perception by the characters of the…