Modern Society Clashes with The Tale of Beowulf
There are many differences between the 2005 movie of Beowulf and Grendel (Gunnarsson) and the old Epic Poem called Beowulf (Heaney). These differences include the amount of realism and cultural differences between the two eras and the differences of the existing characters in the Epic in contrast to the Movie. Even though this so called, “new modern day Beowulf,” as depicted in the 2005 movie follows along some of the same paths as the first two parts of the epic, it is much different in a morality and cultural way. This would be because back in the epic’s day they thought that something was evil for being evil and now a days there seems to always have a reasoning of why that particular character …show more content…
The movie depicts the character of Beowulf as a person that has more compassion, moral values, and a more enhanced physical look with that of modern Homo Sapiens. His compassion and moral value go to the extent of him asking Hrothgar questions about Grendel in order to figure out why Grendel has come all of a sudden and started to terrorize the people of the Danes, especially Hrothgar. He, Beowulf, even spared the life of Grendel’s son, after having killed his father, and instead of walking away like Hrothgar did to Grendel when he killed his father. Beowulf, then tells the young child to be proud of who his father was and proceeds to construct a shrine for Grendel in order to serve as an example of justice for his wrongdoing and forgiveness to Grendel's son so that he doesn't terrorize the Danes as his father once did. Even though he does kill Grendel and Grendel’s mother in that cave, he can not kill an innocent child that has done nothing wrong to him and the danes, other than being the son of Grendel. His feelings and actions are more in line with what we, the people in the now, consider morally correct as well as feel and sympathize for and with. Meanwhile, his character look is not as a big pop out like he was in the book, where he looks more like the other fighting warriors of the Geats and Danes then he does of a humongous, gifted human. Beowulf …show more content…
Grendel was a “creature of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes.” This description along with “Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend Grendel … made his home in hell … He was spawned in that slime of Cain, murderous creatures banished by god, punished forever for the crime of Abel’s death.” demonstrate the moral bounds and physical appearance of Grendel (Heaney). When the speaker talks of Grendel to that of Cain, he is insisting that Grendel has no morals for he would kill his own kind for he is the wicked one . These quotes not only shows the morals but the Simplistic duality that the speaker is giving about Grendel, he is saying that Grendel is evil, vile and a fiend, which ties into everything is either good or evil in this world. The realism in this Epic about Grendel is unknown for there are scarce amounts of depictions about him. This would in turn, would tune in to our imaginations to contrive what he would look like through the speakers choice of diction about Grendel. This diction that is given is hardly believable for there are small amounts of it with outrageous thoughts that a creature can have the strength to carry off thirty big, heavy bodied warriors in mail and
There are many differences between the 2005 movie of Beowulf and Grendel (Gunnarsson) and the old Epic Poem called Beowulf (Heaney). These differences include the amount of realism and cultural differences between the two eras and the differences of the existing characters in the Epic in contrast to the Movie. Even though this so called, “new modern day Beowulf,” as depicted in the 2005 movie follows along some of the same paths as the first two parts of the epic, it is much different in a morality and cultural way. This would be because back in the epic’s day they thought that something was evil for being evil and now a days there seems to always have a reasoning of why that particular character …show more content…
The movie depicts the character of Beowulf as a person that has more compassion, moral values, and a more enhanced physical look with that of modern Homo Sapiens. His compassion and moral value go to the extent of him asking Hrothgar questions about Grendel in order to figure out why Grendel has come all of a sudden and started to terrorize the people of the Danes, especially Hrothgar. He, Beowulf, even spared the life of Grendel’s son, after having killed his father, and instead of walking away like Hrothgar did to Grendel when he killed his father. Beowulf, then tells the young child to be proud of who his father was and proceeds to construct a shrine for Grendel in order to serve as an example of justice for his wrongdoing and forgiveness to Grendel's son so that he doesn't terrorize the Danes as his father once did. Even though he does kill Grendel and Grendel’s mother in that cave, he can not kill an innocent child that has done nothing wrong to him and the danes, other than being the son of Grendel. His feelings and actions are more in line with what we, the people in the now, consider morally correct as well as feel and sympathize for and with. Meanwhile, his character look is not as a big pop out like he was in the book, where he looks more like the other fighting warriors of the Geats and Danes then he does of a humongous, gifted human. Beowulf …show more content…
Grendel was a “creature of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes.” This description along with “Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend Grendel … made his home in hell … He was spawned in that slime of Cain, murderous creatures banished by god, punished forever for the crime of Abel’s death.” demonstrate the moral bounds and physical appearance of Grendel (Heaney). When the speaker talks of Grendel to that of Cain, he is insisting that Grendel has no morals for he would kill his own kind for he is the wicked one . These quotes not only shows the morals but the Simplistic duality that the speaker is giving about Grendel, he is saying that Grendel is evil, vile and a fiend, which ties into everything is either good or evil in this world. The realism in this Epic about Grendel is unknown for there are scarce amounts of depictions about him. This would in turn, would tune in to our imaginations to contrive what he would look like through the speakers choice of diction about Grendel. This diction that is given is hardly believable for there are small amounts of it with outrageous thoughts that a creature can have the strength to carry off thirty big, heavy bodied warriors in mail and