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Beowulf is this story about a monster name Grendel who comes and kills this kings Hrothgar people, but Grendel never tries to hurt the king. Beowulf is this prince who comes to kill Grendel, and after winning goes for his mother. Years pass and Beowulf becomes king and is very old when he gets injured in slaying a dragon. He later dies and passes the crown to his best friend. You get two different lessons from the book and the movie, the book, good always wins and in the movie we are all humans and all act with that natural behavior.
In the book Beowulf it says Grendel’s mother is a “ greedy she wolf” and who lives in a dark cave under water. The movie grendel is Angelina Jolie and is having kids with the kings. In the book Grendel is a monster and “born of cain”. The movie shows Grendel more as a human, scared human body standing feet tall then the average man, to represent he’s not all monster later finding out that he’s hrothgar son. …show more content…
After 30 years of running the kingdom a dragon attacks Beowulf land; in the movie you find out that the dragon was Beowulf’s son but in the book Beowulf Says” I’d leave my armor to my son, now if god had given me an heir, a child born of my body, his life created from mine”.
Reading Beowulf you notice the monks made Beowulf a hero and no matter who he fights he’ll win making good always overcoming evil. In the movie they focus more on the story and plot twist with making hrothgar and Beowulf seem more normal human behavior by them being with the beautiful monster by giving her a son.
By changing the ending it helps show that people all do thing that they are not proud of and that you have to live with the concoctive no matter what happens. With the book showing only good things of Beowulf making good overcoming evil, But the movie show love and weakness is in

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