What Are The Similarities Between Beowulf And The 13th Warrior

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Comparing and contrasting the poem Beowulf and the movie The (13th) Warrior brings about questions like: What did the film get right? What did they change? Did the film help your understanding of the work? And last but not least, How? The two works where done during different time frames. The creators of each work could be viewed as great creators. Both tell a tell of widespread heroic adventures. The 13th warrior starts off in Arabia. The story of Beowulf is based in Scandinavia.
The film The 13th Warrior got a lot of things right. The Hero was a man. The Hero who was in Love with a Lady. The hero had to go and fight battles away from home. The last battle was with a Beast. Both of the heroes died in the end as a king. The similarities between The13th Warrior and Beowulf are obvious. Both Heroes where attacked at home, on their land. When Ahmed and his soldiers got attacked by the cannibalistic warriors in the hut, and they gave it their all trying to defeat the leader of the Wendols. Beowulf fights and defeats Grendel in the mead-hall. …show more content…

The film changed the names of the characters. The time and place was of different settings. The hero in the film didn’t have superhuman powers. The hero in the film had to have a group of warriors to help him, while in the book the hero fought his battles by himself, except the fight with the dragon he needed only an inkling of help, but not like the help the film hero needed help. The king died young in the film. Beowulf beheads and kills the mother of Grendel. Buliwyf kills the mother of the Wendol. Beowulf dies after getting a slash to the throat during the battle with the dragon. Beowulf in the end of this particular battle, ends up dyeing as an old man. Quite differently to Beowulf, while the hero from the movie, Buliwyf gets

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