Beowulf: A Violent Way Of Life

Every Hero faces forces they can overcome. These forces all arise from different ways of life. Hard times will come and go, but what you do to fix them is what makes you who you are. The Anglo-Saxon life was a violent way of life just as in Beowulf. It challenged Anglo-Saxon everyday life, it made living a lot harder. Monsters in Beowulf signify how it was during the Anglo-Saxon time. Beowulf once said “behaviour that’s admired is the path to power among people everywhere” Not many people were very lavish during the Anglo-Saxon time and these hard times did not help.
The Anglo-Saxon’s did not really have many people to look up to. Beowulf was a hero, an epic hero to many.Beowulf had much fame and glory after defeating Grendel. “Often, for undaunted courage, fate spares the man it has not already marked” Beowulf said. He was extolled for slaying Grendel with his own claws using no weapons at all. …show more content…
King Hrothgar is much older than Beowulf maybe a bit wiser than the young Beowulf, he also takes responsibility over his people. Beowulf wants the glory and fame from being a hero, but, he does care about his people and wants to protect them at any costs. "And if death does take me, send the hammered/ Mail of my armor to Higlac, return/ The inheritance I had from Hrethel, and he/ From Wayland. Fate will unwind as it must!" Beowulf said this with great honor, he is a young hero and is very vehement about his duties as a