Heorot's Imaginary Parody In Beowulf

Beowulf faces three different endeavors which means the lyric has three different climaxes. The first peak of the story occurs when Beowulf and his men are sleeping in the Heorot and Grendel comes to attack. After the monster kills one of the men, Beowulf grabs Grendel’s arm and rips it off and hangs it on the rafter. The next climax was when Beowulf goes to fight Grendel’s mother, who came back for revenge, killed King Hrothgar’s best friend, and stole back her son’s arm. The two put up a very good fight against each other until Beowulf finds a sword in Grendel’s mother’s kitchen and stabbed her to death.

Then after fifty years of ruling a country, Beowulf goes and fights a dragon who wreaked havoc on Beowulf’s homeland. The hero in a hero quest is the character which is larger than life

This quote shows that Grendel’s mother most likely cared enough about Grendel that she wants to get revenge on those who killed her son. However, later Beowulf goes on a journey to the lake in which Grendel’s mother lives and slays her with her own sword. The last main point is when Beowulf dies. Finally, Beowulf leaves the Danes and goes back to Geatland and later becomes king after his father passes away. Year pass, and eventually a thief awakens a dragon, who begins to torment the village.

The desire for vengeance grows when the Geats decide to hang his arm from the rafters. Beowulf’s bloodlust is so excessive he tries to murder Grendel in the most inhumane ways, and even goes to the extent of sacrificing one of his own men to satisfy his need to kill the undying Grendel. In Atalanta, Meleager and Atalanta go hunting and caught so many animals that they even attracted Artemis’ unwanted attention. Artemis therefore grew upset and “molded a huge boar, mud-colored, with red evil eyes” (177) Atalanta and Meleager obviously slaughter an abundance of animals to get Artemis’ attention. It is unclear why Atalanta becomes upset with Meleager after killing her brother bear, but she is excited to hunt with Meleager.

According to the myth, Minos was imprisoning his enemies in the Labyrinth so that the Minotaur could eat them. The labyrinth was such a complicated construction that no one could ever find the way out alive. Son of Minos, Androgeus, went to Athens to participate to the Panathenaic Games, but he was killed during the Marathon by the bull that impregnated his mother Pasiphae. Minos was infuriated, and demanded Aegeus the king of Athens to send seven men and women every year to the Minotaur to advert the plague caused by the death of Androgeus.

Beowulf jumped in the river and swam down to the water witch. Beowulf then battled her and the other sea monsters; Beowulf then killed Grendel’s mother and went to her layer and found Grendel’s body, he then cut off his head and returned it to the king and they drunk and told his stories. Beowulf then went home and became king of the Geats. According to the movie Beowulf had relations to Grendel’s mother, Beowulf went to Grendel’s cave, seeking Grendel’s mother after she attacked and killed men in the Harriot hall. Beowulf went into the cave and Grendel’s mother was shaped shifted into a beautiful woman.

Years has passed when Hygelac is killed in battle. His son, Heardred, inherits the throne with Beowulf 's support. Beowulf became the king of the Geats village and he rules over everyone for 50 years. The had arose and started to stalk the village at night and eat people and destroying homes. He also destroyed Beowulf’s great hall.

Hal drew his long hunting knife. Mercedes screamed cried, laughed and manifested the chaotic abandonment of hysteria. Thornton rapped Hal’s knuckles with the ax handle, knocking the knife to the ground. ”(London 71)This quote prove that Thornton had to become a master over buck to save him from the city slickers. If Thornton did not save Buck, he would of died.

Before the King gets a chance to crown Prince Char, Ella busts through the heavy brass doors and shouts, “Drop that crown!”. In the following section of the movie, the hero challenges Resurrection. Resurrection, from the Hero’s Journey, includes the hero’s most dangerous meeting with death. This final showdown between Ella and Prince Char versus King Edgar results in a brawl with the King’s knights. In the end, the couple defeats King Edgar and strips him of his power over Frell.

In the poem Grendel is said to be “conceived by a pair of … monsters born of Cain, murderous creatures banished by god”(Beowulf 19) and in the movie he is said to have been conceived by Hrothgar and Grendel’s mother. The setting of the battle against Grendel’s mother and the battle against the Dragon, in the movie detracts from my understanding of the poem. When Beowulf went to face Grendel’s mother in the poem, the lair was described as a place where even a “deer hunted through the woods by pack of hounds, a stag with great horns… prefers to die on those shores. ”(Beowulf 433) instead of going into the lake, instead, the movie depicts the lair as a place difficult to get to, but not impossible, it appears to be less scarier than that of the poem. Throughout the battle against the Dragon, ‘Beowulf’s son,’ the setting is Grendel’s mother’s