Grendel Vs Beowulf Essay

A great man with strength, bravery who is loved by all his people, a man with wise devotion with such pride. Beowulf, battles two demons, first the man-eating Grendel, then Grendel's bereaved mother, defending the Danes from these vicious killers. After returning to Geatland and nobly refusing to steal the throne when his uncle King Hygelac dies, Beowulf ends up becoming king anyway after Hygelac's son, Heardred, is killed in battle. In the sequel of Beowulf, the story is being told in the poem was how powerfully perfect Beowulf was as a hero. Adverse, to how the story was told in the movie, Beowulf was not the loyal, admirerable hero people thought he would’ve been.Thus, In the movie Beowulf and Beowulf the poem similarities and differences varies in Grendel’s behavior, how a real hero should behave, the role of women, which divulge values of both Anglo-Saxons and Modern Society. First, Similarities and differences I will be focusing on is about

And over and over they swore that nowhere On earth or under the spreading sky Or between the seas, neither south nor north, Was there a warrior worthier to rule over men.” The early Anglo-Saxons did not believe strongly in an afterlife as the Christians did. Instead they believed heavily in fame--the kind of eternal life given by the scops who told the stories of you and your deeds during life. But,The Anglo-Saxons did believe in fate or "wyrd", fame, later on they believed in religious faith, and they loved their stories. Whereas in the movie and poem Beowulf, was is described as an hero before he even speaks a word in the story. He was the mightiest man on earth, the noble warrior, and the man whose name was known for courage, the Great