Beowulf Good Vs Evil

Throughout history here has been good and evil, and even today we wage wars upon people that we believe to be evil which is done in today's modern world. This is also significant because people as far back as we can remember having fought over who is good and who's evil and rights and wrongs. In the epic, Beowulf, and the novel, The Rule of Three, by Eric Walters they both have set standards on what makes a being evil. In Beowulf, the hero Beowulf plays the role of a good person against a barbaric raging monster, who he kills and for killing it and he must overcome even more obstacles to save even more people. In, The Rule of Three, The main character Adam lives in a close knit community after a global electronic shutdown stopping all facilities …show more content…
In today's modern world, the civilized and educated people look at other people that are barbaric and ruthless as evil. In the article about Grendel’s Mother, it stated that from her point of view she was good and Beowulf was evil and vice a versa. But, from both points of view as evil they see the other a cruel and barbaric and both look at himself as heroic and brave. In the second paragraph Adam and the prisoner have different views of good and evil. One thinks that they are doing what they think that they need to do to survive and the other doesn't agree with the fact that their idea of survival is killing innocents for materials. The prisoner does not think of it as good and evil rather he thinks of it as eat or be eaten. Yet from Adams view the prisoner and his group of mercenaries are what he thinks of as evil for murdering several innocents for small benefits. An example of how good versus evil is used today is the modern war against I.S.I.S. We do not condone their violent acts against what the extremists call “non-believers”, and they look upon us as the non believers as being evil and a disgrace to their god. We look upon them with our different ideas of religion and we call I.S.I.S. evil for the hostile actions they are taking to fulfill their prophecy. This shows how I.S.I.S. sees themselves as righteous and faithful and the good against evil. We, as Americans, see their cruel and violent acts as evil and since we are trying to eliminate I.S.I.S we see ourself as the good wiping out the evil. Beowulf, Grendel’s Mother, Adam and the prisoner all see themselves as good and the other evil, even though books tell it as the main