Compare And Contrast Grendel And Beowulf

As you look around in this world you see that every person is different in their own way, either the way they dress, or the way they think. The difference you see is most likely influenced by the culture that they follow. Literary works may express many types of cultural differences depending when they might have been written and the authors' views. While Beowulf the epic poem is an opposing work towards the Beowulf and Grendel on the screen, the characterization of Beowulf in the epic poem is an unchanged person while the on screen Beowulf evolves throughout the movie. The Beowulf in the epic poem is looked upon more as a god, nothing could withstand his wrath when he set his mind to accomplish it. He uses no weapons to get his way on defeating his evil opponents, “...a thane, they declared with the strength of thirty in the grip of each hand" (lines 380-381). He makes his boasts so people will see him as a highly great person, which leads to the many followers that he has in the epic poem. As well as being boastful, he is loyal to his King, King Hrothgar. He went to the land of the Danes, because he …show more content…
When he first arrived in the land of the Danes he was determined to please the king Hrothgar and kill the demon that was tormenting his sleep. As the movie progresses, he begins to slowly see things differently and discovers new things about Grendel. Beowulf meets a witch that is never mentioned in the epic poem, she guides him throughout the remainder of the movie, and she tries to guide him from what he thinks is good to the actual good that he did not see because he does not know the complete story. Beowulf at one point questions himself if killing Grendel was actually a good thing to do after he finds out that King Hrothgar has killed Grendel’s father. Beowulf's feeling changed so much towards Grendel, that when Grendel died, he built a grave of stones in honor of his