Beowolf

One of the thigs that stuck out to me was how in the beginning he was destroying everything. He was like or he was a big monster destroying and eating innocent people. It was like he was very uphappy with "music" and his life and he just wanted to be a big bully. He didn't want to people to live life and have fun, he was just concerned with derstroying people.

What beowolf is basically saying is that he has come to destory Grendel. He is practically begging the king to let him fight him because he knows he will win. He is saying that if he happens to lose just let his belongings and his body pats be shipped to his Grandfather Hrethel. He knows that the monster will lose and he will conquer him though.

Apparently this wouldn't be the first time that beowolf went to war. He fought a war at sea and won. He risked his life for their country. They talk about how they wake up in the morning and how they have blood stained hallways from Grendel, because he is eating people. They talk about how religion and how gredel was from the pits of hell. Satan was from the pits of hell and thats who they believed Gredel was. During this time theytalked about alot of poetry and the book of Beowolf was just one big poem.

The night before his battle he had a huge feast. He wanted his soldiers to lie down and get some rest, but he couldn't becasue he was eager to meet Grendel. In defense when they are fighting his Grendel's mother attacks some of Beowolf's army andtries to defend her son. During this battle Grendel loses his arm in the process. So Beowolf goes to the lake where she resides and battles with her to. After the defeat of Grendel and his mom, he takes the had of Grendel to the king, and now he has another task in front of him and thats to go to war with a dragon because he stole a jeweled cup.

During the angelo saxons times they talked about alot of warriors and the Beowolf was a warrior who defeated bad guys. Beowulf spoke: "I am Hygelac's kinsman and warrior.I have undertaken many glorious deeds." Wilkepedia says "In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who has been attacking the mead hall in Denmark called Heorot and its inhabitants; Grendel's mother; and, later in life after returning to Geatland (modern southern Sweden) and becoming a king, he fights an unnamed dragon. Beowulf is fatally wounded in the final battle, and after his death he is buried in a barrow in Geatland by his retainers."The way it compares to our modern day heros, look at spiderman. He fights the bad, and defends everyone, But he also falls in love. The only thing that happens with spiderman is that he flies. With him flying, thats was where they differ. Beowolf doesn't fall in love either though. Wilkepdia says "After misusing his newly-given abilities, which indirectly caused the death of his Uncle Ben, he becomes the heroic Spider-Man. Peter hopes to win the heart of Mary Jane Watson, the girl he has loved since he was a boy, and battles the villainous Green Goblin, who is the father of Peter's best friend, Harry Osborn." He doesn't even fly from building to building. Beowolf walks on land....and he also fights with his bear hands. He doesn't use all these modern day things that spiderman and other action heros use today.

In the beginning, he did anything that his king asked him to do and defeated anyone his king asked him to.He was tyring to basically defend someone who he knew was wrong. I think that he should have died though. It seems as if, once he got older, he decided to switch sides a little and go aganist the wrong person. I thought the older you get the wiser you get, but in his case it's the older he got the dumber he got...he was to old to be doing the things that he was doing. He should have been retired.

Anyone who does that really loves their country. He didn't have to but he did what he had to do. When you die trying to defend someone else that says alot about you. That means that you will go over and beyond what is required and risk your life for others. i think they honored him in the right way with jewels and things of that nature. If you ask my opinion i think that he was a true gangster!!!