Revenge In Beowulf

The theme of Beowulf is revenge and its effects upon society. Beowulf has no known author and the main characters are Beowulf, Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon. Beowulf is about a monster who is descended from the evil of Cain and this monster takes its revenge on a city called herot and a Geat warrior name Beowulf hears about this great monster and wants to get rid of it. And this shows revenge because he is going to avenge the soldiers that were killed by Grendel

In the article of “Beowulf” revenge is being shown when Grendel attacks the warriors of herot and kills 30 men while they were sleeping so Beowulf decides to get revenge by killing Grendel. This shows that when Beowulf states “I, alone with the help of my men will purge

all evil from this hall (raffle 7)”.this proves that Beowulf wants to get revenge because he is going to go on a hunt and won’t stop until either him or Grendel is killed and this effects society because people will continue to be hurt until one is gone or dead
Another way that revenge is shown when Beowulf’s mother finds out that her son is dead and she wants revenge by killing Beowulf so to get his attention she kills soldiers in the halls just like her son did. This is shown when it states that “Grendel’s mother kills Hrothgar’s closest friend and takes the claw that Beowulf tore from her son (raffle 15)”. This is showing revenge because now she is killing people so that she can kill Beowulf because he killed her son.
Revenge is also shown when the king tells Beowulf about Grendel’s mother killing his best friend and when he does that Grendel decides to go to her lair so that he could finish it once and for all. This is shown when Beowulf states “he leaped into the lake and for hours he sank through the waves until he could see the muddy bottom (raffel 15)”.
Lastly revenge is being shown when Beowulf states “he took his weapon for final revenge against all those vicious attacks , his nighttime raids, over and over coming to hero when Hrothgar’s men slept killing them in their beds eating some on the spot and had stuck off his head with a single blow(raffel18)”. So to conclude the main theme of Beowulf is revenge and its effects upon society. My arguments are that revenge can get a lot of people hurt and revenge just causes more bloodshed. This text is important because it not only shows the effects of revenge it shows how it affects the innocent and how fighting doesn’t do anything but cause more people to die. Also it shows that people will continue to get hurt if revenge keeps on happening. Lastly the importance of this is to show that the theme is based off revenge and revenge effects people in their environment which causes not only problems but more bloodshed