Examples Of Prejudice In Beowulf

A contrast between prejudice and Beowulf vs Grendel. Would anyone be okay with death over judgement? In life people judge others for many things whether it's from your appearance to your personality or perhaps for being a monster like Grendel. Due to the ignorance of humans prejudice this is an old yet modern new item in Beowulf this is the cause of many tragedies like: cultural clashes, people arguing and the use of violence that sometimes leads to death. In both Beowulf the epic and Beowulf and Grendel lives are lost due to the way people are prejudice.
The epic story of Beowulf portrays a young man determined to find his place in the Anglo-Saxon society as a hero, encouraged upon him from his youth, Beowulf was enthralled, one can even say he was obsessed, with the idea of fame and accomplishment. His desire for both inspired him at the moment ,and throughout the remainder of his life as a leader amongst leaders and a true hero in the complete sense of the term. Beowulf is different than most heroes in …show more content…
Although Beowulf is still the hero he discovers that Grendel had a son with a witch Selma (Selma not mentioned in the book at nor how she had a child with grendel added as a dramatic scene for hollywood.) Then there is the possibility of the story to repeat again with Grendel's son, because his father and grandmother were both killed due to them being demons and the people being afraid of them….The king Hrothgar wanted them both dead because of his guilt he knew that killing Grendel's father for getting in his way was unfair and he needed to destroy what was causing him guilt in other words he did it for selfish reasons. If Hrothgar would have not killed grendel's father their wouldn't have been so many tragedies and deaths. Although, Grendel the whole time is judged for killing men because it was wrong and scared the people from