Compare And Contrast Grendel And Beowulf

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Alyssa Velasquez
Ms. Ahonen, 5th period
English 2322
28 September 2016
Movie vs. Reading
Throughout any motion picture, it always displays the same, more intense, or soother sense of the reading it was produced from. The movie Beowulf and the textual reading, Beowulf is very different; in addition, the fight scene that is displayed in the movie and analysis, happens to be very comparable. Of course, as any movie there are differences in setting, and overall displacement in the movie; however, Beowulf and Grendel's fight scene is very unique. To start off, Grendel had only wanted to kill at Heriot because of a rumor he had heard, and treasures that were stolen. However, in the movie, they displayed he was “hurt” and “angered” because his father had left him. …show more content…

For the differences in the movie and poem, would all begin with Grendel slaying the Danes at night. In the poem, “down through the mist-bands God-cursed Grendel came greedily looping,” (712) making Grendel's first appearance being that nobody would have the chance to fight him. He went in, “madding for blood” (712) and as he saw ”many men in the mansion, sleeping” (713) he knew he had a greater advantage. However, in the movie, when Grendel first appears, everyone is awake and are able to witness the killings. One other dissimilarity would be based on how Grendel's arm had been ripped off. In in the movie, Beowulf is able to rip his arm off by swinging around a silver chain. By Beowulf doing so, he stops Grendel and cuts his arm off by slamming the Mead Hall door onto it. Beowulf wins the fight fair and square, meaning that he had defeated him by himself. He did not have any help, or anything happen; in addition, the victory was truly his.

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