Comparison Of Beowulf In The Epic Book And Movie

Weak from loss of blood Beowulf stumbled back. When he stepped back thats when Wiglaf smote the dragon and gave Beowulf the time to take a death blow to his fire breathing chest. The Dragon lied dead, once again Beowulf was victorious! He was a true hero, but the hero didn’t get to celebrate this victory like his last two. Beowulf too had died in battle, from the deadly bite on his neck.

Simba runs away, thinking it was his fault for his father’s death. Many years later, as an adult, Simba returns home and fights Scar for the throne. After the long and intense battle, Scar dies by falling off of a cliff and being eaten by the hyenas. Simba accepts his title as King of the Pride Lands when he roars in the thunderstorm on Pride Rock. In this movie, Simba’s main goal is to claim his title as King of the Pride Lands.

Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf is an old epic poem in which the protagonist Beowulf, a hero of the Geats come to the aid of Hrothgar, king of Danes, whose great hall, Heorot is plagued by the monster name Grendel. Beowulf kills Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel’s mom with a giant sword and later becomes the king of Geats. Then after a period of fifty years, he defeats the dragon but is mortally wounded in the battle and dies. After his death, his attendants burn his body him in the huge funeral pyre and then bury him. Hero is the person who is admired and idealized for his courage, outstanding achievements, noble qualities, and is good in the opinion of others.

Another act of bravery by Beowulf is when he fights and kills the dragon. Beowulf’s final boast was, “I’ve never known fear, as a youth I fought in endless battles. I am old, now, but I will fight

Beowulf even at his age goes out to fight the all mighty strong dragon that is in rage after someone has stolen a cup from him and that made him to go out and search for it in the town by destroying it. The dragon then goes out in the town and burns it down but beowulf confronts him and kills him but Beowulf gets injured bad and dies of his wounds being to severe. On Macbeth he fights two army’s and deafeat’s them in one day and after that Macbeth and Banquo learn about their future from three witches. The witches say that macbeth will be The Than of cawdor and then will become king and then tell banquo’s future of his sons will be kings. Macbeth learns part of his prophecy is true and goes to the king and tells him that he is The Than of Cawdor(what the witches told him).

But it is something bigger than the battle with Grendel and Grendel’s Mother. It’s a dragon who has come and is trying to take over his world. He fights the dragon and he has defeated but the wound the dragon had gave him is getting worse. He comes to an end and the last words he says is that he would have wanted to bestow his armor to his son, but he does not have one. The geats bury jewels, gold and treasures in the barrow to honor Beowulf.

Smaug is a dragon who destroyed the kingdom of the King under the Mountain and his people and stole their treasure. Thorin Oakenshield, son of Thrain II and grandson of Thror who was the King under the Mountain aims to retrieve this treasure back with the help of twelve other dwarves and Bilbo as

At this point in the poem, it has been fifty years since Beowulf crushed Grendel and Grendel’s mother; therefore, Beowulf is now fairly old. However, despite his age, he insists on fighting the dragon. He says, “I feel no shame, with shield and sword/And armor, against this monster: when he comes to me/I mean to stand, not run from his shooting/Flames, stand till fate decides/Which of us wins.” (page 57, lines 635-639). From this quote, one can assume that Beowulf knows there is a great chance of him dying during this battle. Even though he is aware of this, he is calm and confident when he heads toward the dragon’s tower.

During on this voyage his ship was struggling at sea when Calypso, a beautiful nymph, saves him and brings him onto her island. While Odysseus is there Calypso seduces him and enslaves him, trying to make him her immortal husband forever, on her island for 7 years. Gilgamesh, a half god, half man tyrant king that ruled over Uruk, and Enkidu, who was a destructive, wild, and a faithful friend fought many enemies together. Then, out of nowhere Enkidu gets very sick therefore dies a little later on, Gilgamesh takes the loss of his best friend very hard and is willing to do anything to get him back. Gilgamesh goes out on his journey to save Enkidu he meets his mentor Siduri, the wine goddess, once Gilgamesh tells her why he is doing all of this she informs him about Utnapishtim.

But they cannot get too comfortable because they learn there is a new enemy which is the mother. So due to that Beowulf is not done helping out, and same with the dragon appearing. The crisis Beowulf faces is when he faces death two times. When Beowulf was fighting Grendel and his mother he overcomes death especially when he fights with Grendel’s mom because she could have easily killed him but he was too powerful. Also the same thing with defeating the dragon.

In his first great battle, he fought Grendel. The Danish king, Hrothgar built the great hall, Heorot. He was plagued for twelve years by the monster Grendel, whom was irritated by the noise of the king and his kingdom. Grendel snuck in at night, attacks and eats Hrothgar’s men. Beowulf and fourteen other soldiers sail to Heorot to defeat Grendel.

Eventually, a third and last monster appeared. This time the monster was a furious dragon that would attack and burn down the villages of Geatland. Obviously, Beowulf was ready to take on the dragon in a fight, but unfortunately, after defeating it, his wounds were not to fix. Sadly, Beowulf had fought his last fight. Eventually, The Geat’s held a worthy funeral for Beowulf, and they even built an enormous barrow where he could rest in peace.

Beowulf returns home, and in time gets to be King of the Geats. Somewhere in the range of 50 years after the fact, Beowulf 's kin are assaulted by a mythical beast. Beowulf meets the mythical serpent in battle, and however he executes it, bites the dust in the fight. Without his security the Geats are invade by the Swedes from the north and tribes from the