Alluding Mortality In Beowulf

Again the author stresses the importance of God through alluding mortality by showing God’s influential assistance during Beowulf’s battles. The first battle that Beowulf puts his trust in God was the battle with Grendel. Beowulf explicitly stated that he will fight the demon with his bare hands and “whoever death takes / will have to trust in the judgement of God (Beowulf 440-441).” Grendel is a descendent of Cain and will never put his trust in God. Beowulf has faith in God and has shown it which is why he trusts that God’s judgment will be the right choice. Beowulf before the fight with Grendel “Trusted completely / in his proud strength and the favor of God (Beowulf 669-670).” This proves that Beowulf not just relied on his physical strength …show more content…
The author alluding mortality gives greater significance to God and is trying to teach readers that God will lend his assistance when needed. Furthermore the author alluded mortality to show the importance of God because by repeatedly putting your faith in God, he will one day assist you when it is desperately needed. During Beowulf’s fight with Grendel’s mother, Beowulf desperately needed the assistance of God. Beowulf goes to fight Grendel’s mother for Hrothgar and openly admits that he may not come back from this fight. During the battle, Beowulf feared for his life as Grendel’s mother “sat on her hall-guest and drew her broad knife/ a sharp weapon to buy back her son/ her only kinsman. Across [Beowulf’s] chest lay the iron net; it save his life / as she …show more content…
Beowulf tells his men before the fight that “it is not [their] business, / nor fitting for any, except [him] alone, / to test out his strength adjacent this monster (Beowulf 2532-2534).” Before the battle with the dragon, Beowulf tells his men that they are not fit nor its any of their business to test the strength and battle the dragon and that Beowulf will be fighting alone. Some people argue that Beowulf told his men it is not their business because Beowulf wants all the glory of defeating the dragon by himself. I argue that Beowulf was not overwhelmed with excessive pride to take all the glory of defeating the dragon, but instead was thinking about the lives of his men. Beowulf’s men are all young men who have no experience of battle so they are no where as strong as Beowulf. With Beowulf as king, no other tribe dare attack him so his men never experienced true battle. This was the right decision from Beowulf because when the battle started and his men witness the power of the dragon they were engulfed in fear so “they fled to the woods / to save their lives (Beowulf 2598-2599).” These warriors were so afraid of the dragon that they ran away from the battle. If these warriors were scared so easily by the dragon then they would have never stood a chance fighting it. This proves that during the battle with the dragon, Beowulf took caution of being