Beowulf is a mighty powerful story. The epic poem talks about how Beowulf is a strong warrior who is not afraid to battle the evil monster of Herot. These monsters have been torturing the people of Herot for years. No one has ever challenged them like the brave Beowulf did. The first monster Grendel was powerful and hated the joy of the Danes. He decided to punish the Danes for rejoicing; until one haunting night Grendel ended it all. Beowulf took it upon himself to take care of these beast. Unknowing, Beowulf comes across Grendel’s mother and the action takes of from there Grendel attacks the soldiers before his mother promised Beowulf to be king, whereas a dragon wants to challenge Beowulf.
Grendel the evil beast he was could not stand the sound of the jolly music; however, the towns people enjoyed their time. Mr. Grendel goes to Herot an blindsided the innocent people. Chairs, tables and bodies fly everywhere as Grendel attacks. Almighty Grendel uses his sharp claws to break bodies to pieces, until Beowulf swoops in on a chain an kicks Grendel to the ground. Beowulf and Grendel fight back and forth, whereas Grendel is hit
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The movie shows that Hrothgar kills himself so that’s how Beowulf becomes king. One day a huge fire breathing dragon comes and surprises everyone. Beowulf thinks its just another bad monster but, its actually his song. The poem says nothing about the dragon being his son. Beowulf is old now so he has to use weapons to kills the beast. Also, in the poem Wiglaf helps defeat the dragon. Beowulf begins to fight the dragon but gets hurt doing so. The dragon ends up burning him with his flames. The confident Beowulf pulls the dragons cuts and pulls its heart out. Although in the poem, Wiglaf kills the dragon with his drew sword. Beowulf falls from being burned and dies from this last battle. He is buried in a tall tomb tower from his will. The movie shows his body sailing away on a burning
The story begins with Grendel taking the lives of countless innocent men. It seems to all that there is no one who can face this great monster who lives down in the swamp. The king, Hrothgar, becomes concerned for the health of his country and seeks out help from someone of great strength. In hearing this, Beowulf sees it as an opportunity to increase his popularity and fame. Upon arrival, he is anxious to come face to face with the great beast. In addition, he declares that he will fight Grendel without any weapons to prove who is truly the strongest. After his victory, Beowulf gets his fame and becomes king of another land for fifty years.
Beowulf is a poem about strength and courage. This is illustrated in the eighth section of the story called “Beowulf and the Dragon.” A slave, a hero and a dragon play a big role in this section. The characters are well developed, as is the setup for the conclusion of the poem.
However, this stranger is unlike any human Grendel has ever met before. When Grendel attacks the mead hall that night, he discovered that this stranger is not only much stronger and smarter than he imagined, he is also much more cruel. “He’s crazy. I understand him all right, make no mistake. Understand his lunatic theory of matter and mind, the chilly intellect, the hot imagination, blocks and builder, reality as stress” (Gardner 172). This insane man is actually the hero Beowulf. However, in this story, Beowulf is portrayed as one of the worst humans of them all. He cannot just kill Grendel, he has to see Grendel suffer up to his death. He forces Grendel to sing and humiliates him in front of the other men. This unearthly cruelty is what finally took down Grendel. But it also shows that even though Grendel was physically the monster, that he was not the worst creature on earth. Grendel was not as cruel as Beowulf; in the end, man becomes the monster and the monster becomes the
Grendel appears the night when Beowulf arrives at Heorot. Beowulf wrestles the monster barehanded. He tears off the monster's arm but Grendel escapes. He dies soon afterward at the bottom of his mere, or swamp. Hrothgar rewards Beowulf with a great store of treasures. Another banquet is held for the warriors of both the Geats and the Danes.
The story states, “To escape him, searched for rest in different/ Beds, as far from Herot as they could find, Seeing how Grendel hunted when they slept” (Lines 54-56). Grendel is the problem to the people of Herot because he comes into the hall to hunt and kill whoever is there. He is the reason why conflict is happening in Herot’s halls. One more example of conflict in the story is how Grendel’s mother becomes enraged as Grendel is dead and wants to kill Beowulf. The story explains, “She welcomed him in her claws,/ Clutched at him savagely but could not harm him,/ Tried to work her fingers through the tight/ Ring-woven mail on his breast, but tore and scratched in vain” (Lines 476-479). Grendel’s mother vain attempt of hurting Beowulf in first sight shows how enrage she is against him. Her sudden attack on Beowulf shows that there is conflict between the two. Moreover an article speaking on conflict in Beowulf, a critic states, “Beowulf crosses the sea to the land of the Danes in order to clear their country of a man-eating monster called Grendel” (Heaney). Beowulf crosses to Herot to kill Grendel. Grendel is the monster who is causing conflict to the Danes in
They started wrestling each other on the floor, Beowulf grab his sword to only throw useless lashes against the dragons strong thick scale. The dragon grew angry she let a roar of fire out and there went Beowulf frighten men ran with terror. Wiglaf was the only one loyal enough to stay true to his oath to his king. Beowulf was now desperate and pulled his sword from his belt, with what energy he has left he struck the dragon one good time. He aimed at the dragons spiteful head, but the sword snaps and shatters.
Moreorless the Danish King, Hrothgar was its owner. But, there was a very evil monster living in the remote hills of Denmark. Known as Grendel, this monster would kill the drunken patrons as they slept inside Herot. And the noise they made as they partied put so much stress on Grendal, it enraged him to the point of murder. Grendel would go on killing sprees as they slept, and no one was brave enough to even think about facing him, except for Beowulf.
"That night, Beowulf and his men stay inside Herot. While his men sleep, Beowulf lies awake, eager to meet with Grendel" (Raffel Burton- 48). In the epic, Beowulf establishes himself as a highly profitable warrior, on a mission to serve and protect. Immediately, Beowulf is presumed to be a good force, taking on Grendel who is perceived to be a descendant of Cain, who personifies evil. A valiant warrior, Beowulf protests that he shall take on the monster, stripped of weapons and armor. When the evil monster Grendel attacked the people of Herot, Beowulf chose to fight Grendel and diminish the evil that he represents. While he and his men sleep, Grendel arrives to wreak havoc on the mead-hall.
The poem Beowulf was written between 700-750 A.D. by an unknown author set in Denmark and Sweden, other wise known as Scandinavia. The original Beowulf only exists in one copy, and was severely damaged by a fire. The poem was an epic with many Christian references throughout the poem. In the poem, Grendel attacks the people of the Danes at night for the loud celebrating in Herot (mead hall), that drives him mad with rage, bringing death and destruction. Beowulf kills both Grendel, and his mother, then returns to his land to later become the king of the Geats. While in the 2007 film, Beowulf kills Grendel, is seduced by Grendel’s mother, lies about killing her, and becomes king of the Danes.
Grendel relieves his anger and hatred for the Danes by killing them. He torments them and enjoys the act. Eventually he is defeated by the hero of the story, Beowulf, the prince of the Geats, and his evil reign is ended abruptly. This introduces a character of great evil, the mother of
During the celebration, King Hrothgar delivers an appreciation and dedication speech to Beowulf and his victory. From Hrothgar’s speech, we understand that he feels himself to be bound in a new relationship with Beowulf by his great service. He states, “Beowulf, best of men, in my heart I will love you as a son” (Tuso 17). Beowulf readers should start taking careful notice as King Hrothgar gradually becomes a mentor and a father-like figure to Beowulf. To some extent, Hrothgar even gives advice to Beowulf about how to act as an intelligent ruler through his own experience.
After Beowulf tears off Grendel’s arm, he hangs it from the rafters of Herot. Grendel’s irate mother attacks Herot and takes her son’s arm and retreats back to her lair.
As many would conclude, Beowulf puts up a great fight against this dragon. First, Beowulf tells of how he will defeat this monster and inherit all of the dragon’s treasures that are kept away in the tower. Then, he travels to the dragon’s castle, feeling the heat from afar. When he approaches the dragon, his shield and armor protect him for awhile, but then start to melt. For the first time, Beowulf knows fate is against him.
Beowulf fights back, and stabs the dragon in it’s underbelly, killing it. In knowing he will die, Beowulf had told Wiglaf to take over the kingdom and to have his funeral along the coast. This battle shows Beowulf’s hubris and his vanity and wanting the treasure for himself. His supernatural strength and good intentions had
A compelling ending of a literary work does not simply end; it continues evolving in the minds of the readers well past its final pages. In the epic poem Beowulf written by an English monk and translated by Seamus Heaney, the hero Beowulf meets his death as he fights a dragon during the final pages. Previously, Beowulf displays many heroic traits defending King Hrothgar and the Danes against the evil, God-cursed monster, Grendel, and Grendel’s malignant mother. Beowulf returns to his home in Geatland where he rules as king for fifty years. The epic closes with Beowulf defeating the dragon and dying in the process. Beowulf hastily passes on the kingship to Wiglaf before his death since Beowulf has no son who would automatically receive