Beowulf Sacrifice Analysis

The Concept of Duty and Sacrifice in Beowulf Everyone has read the poem “Beowulf” or has seen the computerized version on this poem. Beowulf is about a Viking who is in battle with Grendel, who supposedly a descendent of Cain, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon. In this paper, we will talk about Beowulf’s duties and sacrifices and why they are important. First discussion to be talked about is why Beowulf thought it was his duty to save the mead hall for Hrothgar from Grendel and the sacrifice he made to battle him with no weapons or armor on, second is why Beowulf had to finish what he started when battling Grendel’s mother and the sacrifice he made through that battel, and lastly why Beowulf thought only he could defeat the dragon by himself and why he sacrificed himself for his people. When the poem beginnings there was, a king named

When Beowulf and the men he brought found the cave of the mother Beowulf told his men to stay put and wait for him to return and if he did not return to go back home and share his prized possession he received with his king back at home. So down Beowulf went to find Grendel's mother to finish what he started and when he found his mother she took him deep into the cave to the spot where Grendel laid dead, she wanted to defeat Beowulf in front of her son to show him that the man who killed him is now dead. Sadly, that did not go a planned, Beowulf fought well but the sword that Unferth gave him named, Hrunting, did not work on Grendel's mother, in desperation he looked around for a weapon that would kill the mother and looking upon the treasures she had a axe or sword made my trolls that would