Humanity
In the book, Beowulf, the dragon shows a lot of character traits that we as people possess today. To start off, the dragon had something that was very important to it. The dragon had a massive collection of treasure. Valuable and beautiful pieces of gold and silver were hidden in a cave that the dragon guarded. In the book is says “there was a hidden passage, unknown to men” (lines 2213-2214). He didn’t want anyone to find and take his hoarded treasure (line 2213). This act of greed made him possessive over these things that didn’t even matter. He valued all of his treasure over anything else. No one could touch his treasure, he didn’t want to share is valuable things.
Often, as humans, we have these same traits as the dragon. We attach ourselves to things that will one day be useless and have no meaning. In our culture, our things are important to us. Collections become a hoard and take up space in our homes and become more important than other relationship. Clothes tend to be one of these objects that we obsess over. The satisfaction of buying a new shirt or scarf is something that everyone gets. “It’s new and different from the seven other shirts I just bought.” “I don’t have this brand yet, I need to buy it.” These are things that are said all of the time by someone who is addicted to buying clothes or …show more content…
In lines 2270-2277 in the book, it says “Then an old harrower of the dark happened to find the hoard open, the burning one who hunts out barrows, the slick-skinned dragon, threatening the sky with streamers of fire. People on the farm are in dread of him. He is driven to hunt out hoards under ground, to guard heathen gold through age- long vigils, though to little avail.” The dragon is an old harrower. He has people terrified of him. All he does is seek out treasure to satisfy him. It’s obvious he has no one when reading those sentences. Living by himself in this cave, all he had was this treasure he
In the book, Beowulf, the dragon shows a lot of character traits that we as people possess today. To start off, the dragon had something that was very important to it. The dragon had a massive collection of treasure. Valuable and beautiful pieces of gold and silver were hidden in a cave that the dragon guarded. In the book is says “there was a hidden passage, unknown to men” (lines 2213-2214). He didn’t want anyone to find and take his hoarded treasure (line 2213). This act of greed made him possessive over these things that didn’t even matter. He valued all of his treasure over anything else. No one could touch his treasure, he didn’t want to share is valuable things.
Often, as humans, we have these same traits as the dragon. We attach ourselves to things that will one day be useless and have no meaning. In our culture, our things are important to us. Collections become a hoard and take up space in our homes and become more important than other relationship. Clothes tend to be one of these objects that we obsess over. The satisfaction of buying a new shirt or scarf is something that everyone gets. “It’s new and different from the seven other shirts I just bought.” “I don’t have this brand yet, I need to buy it.” These are things that are said all of the time by someone who is addicted to buying clothes or …show more content…
In lines 2270-2277 in the book, it says “Then an old harrower of the dark happened to find the hoard open, the burning one who hunts out barrows, the slick-skinned dragon, threatening the sky with streamers of fire. People on the farm are in dread of him. He is driven to hunt out hoards under ground, to guard heathen gold through age- long vigils, though to little avail.” The dragon is an old harrower. He has people terrified of him. All he does is seek out treasure to satisfy him. It’s obvious he has no one when reading those sentences. Living by himself in this cave, all he had was this treasure he