Fear In Beowulf

Fate is often described as the will or principle by which things in general are believed to come to be . The question of fate has been pondered over for ages , with the epic poem, Beowulf, raising questions on the concept of fate versus free will. The epic raises the question in the form of the complex,yet dynamic character Grendel. Although it seems at certain points that Grendel acts on free will ,he is in fact led entirely by fate. The idea of fate leading Grendel’s life is made entirely from the fact that he was born a monster and an unfortunate descendant of Cain.

Have you ever had someone so loyal to you that they are willing to give their life for you? No, i didn't think so. Well a very long time ago an unknown person wrote an epic poem now known as Beowulf. The author was most likely a monk but i will never be assured.

If you mean to tell me that anyone who was born into a family of monsters exiled by God is not misunderstood, I hate to break it to you, but you’re wrong. It would be like being born into a family of Nazi supporters: you grow up supporting the Third Reich and even though it’s wrong, you don’t know any better. Beowulf introduces this tragic backstory, however, without defending Grendel and without assuming he is anything but rotten and nefarious. Grendel further expands his backstory while leaving the readers to wondering Grendel really is the way he is for a reason.

Beowulf is a tale of a Epic Hero that protects his people from a monster named Grendel. In modern day times, Grendel's appetite for murder is shared with Pedro Rodrigues Filho. Pedro’s hunger for killing deminstaights it's not just a fictional monster that kills but real people in a real world. Pedro Rodrigues Filho was born on a farm in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, southern Minas Gerais state in Brazil.

ver time, humans have always created stories and conjured up personifications of evil to explain the unknown - whether it was the myth of the vampire, spurred on by Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the receding of skin that causes a corpse’s nails to appear longer, or the myth of Wendigos, a create of evil in Native American culture. Many cultures and civilizations, new and old, have their fairytales and monsters in the dark, to explain the unknown. We see this in Beowulf, where Grendel is a representation of Satanic evil in the Bible due to the heavy influence of faith in Germanic warrior society, as opposed to monsters in modern society such as the zombie, which is a reflection of evolving political fears. In Beowulf, the first antagonist the reader

Dear Family and Friends, The Geats lost an audacious warrior today, he was quite the man of dauntlessness and put his life on the line to protect the ones he so passionately cared about. He was a very altruistic man and knew the battles and obstacles he had to face for his people to live without worry. Beowulf's deeds will not go unnoticed. For this man was a warrior. A considerable one at that.

Throughout the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, problems arouse and a warrior steps up and defeats the enemy, but is that a definition of a true warrior? Aside from the ability to fight and kill, a warrior should have more significant values than that. He shall attain the values of loyalty and liberality to be considered a true warrior. In the poem Beowulf, the presence of loyalty and liberality heighten the quality of an Anglo-Saxon hero by showing true commitment to the warrior’s path opposed to others who do not show it.

The Five Steps The literature suggests that God was a prominent figure in their lives after the main character has experienced a great amount of suffering. God was to be absent to them until he or she ascended onto a high level of anguish and suffering. According to Anglo Saxon literature, God’s purpose is to make humans suffer so people can see their true selves or reflect to repent. God’s plan for life is prominent in the most famous Anglo Saxon literature, Beowulf, where God uses Gendel as a way to make the Geats and Dains suffer. Grendel being his messenger from hell, preaches to Beowulf and the others by leaving the malled and distorted bodies of their loved ones in their homes, explaining to them that this is what God wants.

In this part of Beowulf, the two monsters are fought. This section is broken up into two parts, the fight against Grendel, and the fight against his mother. Beowulf entered the story just before his fight with Grendel; making the fight his 'big debut' in the poem. But, what was so important about these fights? Why were they fought?

Beowulf is an epic hero. He has great acts of heroic things. He never flees from a challenge. Beowulf comes for a far land to help hrothgar. There 's a terrible darkness over his land.