Custom Essay: Correlation Between Beowulf And Christian Culture

In the poem, Beowulf, there are references to Christianity or correlation between the Germanic culture and Christianity culture when the story was written and inspired by. The poets’ main purpose was to show the correlation between the two. Critics who have read the poem have brought up that the poet is placing a parallel with Beowulf and God near the end of the poem. However, these correlations do not truly depict Beowulf as a God like character, he is only a standard Germanic hero. The argument has some points that may or may not point to Beowulf being a Christ like character. Beowulf has thirteen men accompany him to fight the dragon, at his funeral there are twelve men on horses riding around his tomb, and that he fights the dragon to save his people by sacrificing himself. …show more content…
When Beowulf hears about the dragon, he is an old man that still is holds to his pride. At this point in the story, we know that Beowulf still holds to his old accomplishments and wants to prove that he is still a hero to his people, he boasts about some of his old accomplishments to his men before he ventures out, “Many a skirmish I survived when I was young and many times of war: I remember them well.” (Beowulf 2346-37). In is wish to prove he’s’ still a hero and to bring glory to his people, Beowulf decides to take only eleven men with him to slay the dragon, the thirteenth man cones as the thief who started the entire chaos. The correlation to Christ is that there were thirteen apostilles with Judas who betrayed him. There is no clear depiction here for Beowulf to be a Christ character, the number of men don’t seem to be the apostilles. Also, the thief is supposed to represent Judas did not agitate the dragon on purpose nor did he intend to send Beowulf to his