A Comparison Between Wuthering Heights And Beowulf

Throughout a lifetime, only so much conflict could be bore upon oneself. There is always a breaking point, the important aspect is the timing. From my story Wuthering Heights to Beowulf and Canterbury Tales there are conflicts that have been exaggerated and then blown to preposterous proportions. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight there are conflicts between man and man just like there are in the world we live in today. Conflicts in books or stories could show what is going on in the real world or what an author is thinking and making up.In Wuthering Heights there could be two different conflicts man vs. man, with the conflict between Heathcliff and Edgar, as well as a conflict of man vs. self, with the inner conflict that Catherine faces in deciding between Heathcliff and Edgar. Every story has conflicts, similarities, literary devices, cultural happenings, and even more. The question to be asked is ‘Why?’, ‘Why is there a conflict?’ or ‘Why is the author saying that?’. Upon reading Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte d’Arthur, Macbeth, and Wuthering Heights, the answers have become more clear and distinct. Now the question to be asked is ‘What is the next book to be read?’.

In every story there seems to be villains and heroes, but what if it seems like there are only villainous people? In Wuthering Heights there is only one man who can only be slightly connected to being a hero, Heathcliff ("Wuthering Heights"). There were also heros and villains in the other stories. In Beowulf there is Beowulf as the hero and Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon as the villains. In Beowulf the villains are all slayed by Beowulf and he saves the Danes. Another example is Arthur becoming the hero in Le M...

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... another, they are all different in their own way.

After finishing as many stories as the class has, one can retain abundant amounts of information. The information could be as detailed as the name given to Beowulf’s sword, Hrunting, to general information like knowing the reasons behind the Green Knight's teachings in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Literature is precisely complicated and challenging, it is the depth the reader is willing to go into the story to comprehend that will make the difference. It is easy to scrape the top of the surface, but to go deep down and learn more than imagined is the hard part. Finding the similarities, conflicts, and literary devices is the way to learn about a story, not just reading and doing nothing. The extra effort makes the biggest difference when learning about a story, the only thing needed is the push to get started.