Character development is essential in a character-driven literature, where the plot focuses not on the events themselves, but actually on their personality traits. This literary device is utilized step by step throughout literature in order to focus and clarify the crucial aspects about the character in a story. The story lines that move us most, the ones that will be trapped inside our minds decades later, are those inhabited by characters the reader can connect with on a deep emotional level. No one character can grasp in the course of a story what they need to learn in order to give in or overcome their own limitations and flaws without first undergoing rigorous trials. The bumpy path of individual growth and development a certain character
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In chapter 8 of the novel, there is a part that is of significance to Hrothgar character development. “This morality of his, this dignity, are they not of my work? What was he before me? Nothing! A swollen headed raider, full of outrage and dumb jokes and mead. I made him what he is now. Do I not have the right to test my own creation?” Towards the end, Hrothgar must depend on the aid of the Geats to kill the beast Grendel. Grendel has figured out that the king has found a way to intimated the other kings out of their treasury. Like what the Shaper was hoping for, Hrothgar examines the best of what 's available of his people and modifies it for his own desires. He realizes that he doesn 't feel the need to stick to the old rules of conduct. As the novel continues into its last chapters and into winter, the elegance of Hart is descending, and the once vigorous Hrothgar is filled with exhaustion, uncertainty, and …show more content…
He 'd like to believe that they 're arrogant, babbling fools, but his own early observations convey why he has good reason to worry about what the humans can accomplish. Now if the so called "lower humans" like Ork and Unferth can reason, plot and devise a strategy well enough to unsettle the monster, just visualize how Grendel feels about a man like Hrothgar. Grendel realizes that Hrothgar might be the prime example of all humans because he has the capacity to step outside of the king mindset and find a way to enhance his own rule. Without any additional resources, Hrothgar alters all that is known about warfare during his time. He obviously knows that there is much chaos out there, but he doesn 't have the capability to restore order. He soon became a political schemer who will do anything if it meant achieving his goals, but he soon finds them without satisfaction. There are lots of enemies all over the kingdom that threaten the order of Hrothgar 's own kingdom, like Hrothulf, Grendel, and other upcoming warlords, but Hrothgar can not seem to think his way out of this dark corner in which there is no
In chapter 8 of the novel, there is a part that is of significance to Hrothgar character development. “This morality of his, this dignity, are they not of my work? What was he before me? Nothing! A swollen headed raider, full of outrage and dumb jokes and mead. I made him what he is now. Do I not have the right to test my own creation?” Towards the end, Hrothgar must depend on the aid of the Geats to kill the beast Grendel. Grendel has figured out that the king has found a way to intimated the other kings out of their treasury. Like what the Shaper was hoping for, Hrothgar examines the best of what 's available of his people and modifies it for his own desires. He realizes that he doesn 't feel the need to stick to the old rules of conduct. As the novel continues into its last chapters and into winter, the elegance of Hart is descending, and the once vigorous Hrothgar is filled with exhaustion, uncertainty, and …show more content…
He 'd like to believe that they 're arrogant, babbling fools, but his own early observations convey why he has good reason to worry about what the humans can accomplish. Now if the so called "lower humans" like Ork and Unferth can reason, plot and devise a strategy well enough to unsettle the monster, just visualize how Grendel feels about a man like Hrothgar. Grendel realizes that Hrothgar might be the prime example of all humans because he has the capacity to step outside of the king mindset and find a way to enhance his own rule. Without any additional resources, Hrothgar alters all that is known about warfare during his time. He obviously knows that there is much chaos out there, but he doesn 't have the capability to restore order. He soon became a political schemer who will do anything if it meant achieving his goals, but he soon finds them without satisfaction. There are lots of enemies all over the kingdom that threaten the order of Hrothgar 's own kingdom, like Hrothulf, Grendel, and other upcoming warlords, but Hrothgar can not seem to think his way out of this dark corner in which there is no