Similarities Between Beowulf And Macbeth

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In the stories Beowulf by an unknown poet and Macbeth by William Shakespeare has similarity and difference quality between them. The qualities mostly focuses is cowardly when a person is not courageous, loyalty when someone is faithful and trustful to another, and ambitious when someone has desire they want to get.
An important comparison between Beowulf and Macbeth was ambition. But there are two types of ambition the good and the bad one. Macbeth is an example of the bad ambition. An evidence that explains this is when Macbeth was talking to Duncan about his desire, “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step/On which I must fall down or else o’erleap,/For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;/Let not light see my black and deep desires./The …show more content…

Macbeth is a coward, he was not manly enough to kill King Duncan, he had to get help from Lady Macbeth. “As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that/Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life/And live a coward in thine own esteem,/Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,”/Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage?/MACBETH Prithee, peace./I dare do all that may become a man./” Who dares (do) more is none./……..’tis to love the babe that milks me./I would, while it was smiling in my face,/Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums/And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you/Have done to this,” (1.7.45-67). In this evidence, Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth's manhood. She calls Macbeth coward, tells him that she is more “manly” than him, and that she would kill an innocent baby if it was necessary. Without Lady Macbeth, he would have never killed King Duncan. On the other hand, an evidence that shows Beowulf is known for not being a coward, instead he is known for being courageous in line number 244 to 250, “My people have said, the wisest, most knowing/And best of them, that my duty was to go to the Danes’/Great King. They have seen my strength for themselves,/Have watched me rise from the darkness of war,/Dripping with my enemies’ blood. I drove/Five great giants into chains, Chased all of that race from the earth.” When Beowulf and his followers heard that King Hrothgar was unable to protect his country from Grendel. He

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