Beowulf Literary Analysis

In Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics the author has many points like Beowulf is historically arctic or how when people read the poem it comes to them as political, mythical,or a epic.one point that can thing that can spark interest in the book is how it is a paradox of a poem devoted to a theme and how it shows man at war with a very hostile environment.

One opinion the author tries to get across is that the poem is profoundly untrue, but strikingly true of the literature in the time period. Beowulf has been used throughout history for many works of literature and works of art. Although in Beowulf there is many strong different between later norse and the ancient english, the poem mixes ideas of the dragon and …show more content…
” The hall towered,its gables wide and high awaiting a barbarous burning. That doom abided, but in time it would come; the killer instinct unleashed among in-laws the blood-lust rampant.Then a powerful demon, a prowler though the dark, nursed a hard grievance.” (81-87) This quote states how the hall was built with peace in mind but soon the hall will get destroyed by a forest creature that has a goal to destroy everything that is pure/good. “ They had seen me boltered in the blood of enemies when I battle and bound five beasts, raided a troll-nest and in the night-sea slaughtered sea-brutes. I have suffered extremes and avenged the Geats (their enemies brought it upon themselves, I devastated them). Now I Mean to be a match for Grendel, settle the outcome in single combat.”(419-426) This quote shows how the poem is dictated by one of the themes courage, one of the main ideas on the Anglo-saxons is courage and loyalty which the main character shows throughout the story which all his action and his