Beowulf Compare And Contrast Essay

Beowulf was a honored hero in both the epic and the movie. The epic shows some differences that the movie doesn't show and visa/versa. For example in the epic as Hrothgar is being attacked by Grendel not once did it say that Hrothgar was Grendle’s fathers. This would have put a lot of suspense on the story and reader if it was mentioned in the book. The move tells us that some how the dragon is the son of Beowulf. Make Beowulf not a human but a god. I realized that the move concludes with Beowulf killing the dragon by ripping his heart out which was no the case in the story. In the story both the Dragon and the epic hero Beowulf die leaving Wiglaf to give the message to the world about the magnificent lost that has a cured. The book tells us that Beowulf ends up killing Grendel’s mother in a big fight that took 9 hours to complete and also almost killed him. In the movie it seemed as Grendel’s mother hypnotized Hrothgar and Beowulf into letting her keep reeking havoc on the world. Beowulf also spent a long period of time deleting the dragon who ends up killing Beowulf by biting him in the neck and poisoning him. This show the difference between how Beowulf died in the story then in the movie. …show more content…
Beowulf is the hero that kills both the dragon and Grendel but not his mother. This show that there was no other epic hero that competed with Beowulf to be the ultimate hero of the plot. As the story went on in both the epic and the movie Beowulf returned to the Danes with Grendel’s head and arm. And in both events Grendel’s mother seeks revenge to finish Grendel’s unfinished business. At the end of the story and movie Beowulf dies was considered a hero. All of these events took place the same way because with out these events there would be a totally different outcome to the main plot of the story and