Read Literature Like A Professor Beowulf Analysis

On a winding path, through the treacherous winds, the blazing storm tears at the soul of anyone who dares to walk the path .A hero rises to the quest before them and endures the challenges that grapples at them throughout the journey that builds their character to become the hero she or he is meant to be. A journey therefore is a quest. In how to” Read Literature like a Professor” by Thomas C.
Foster it is strongly suggested in the first chapter how most characters that journey on a quest in a book aren’t really achieving the goal they set out to achieve; instead the characters with or without awareness are finding self-knowledge because of the journey they had to endure, changing the perception of how they view their desiring destination. …show more content…
Firstly Beowulf boasted the many challenges he ran into and faced little to almost no true challenging feats. He had a sense of pride because he was a successful hero and reached his own understanding of what heroism meant. Beowulf was described as more of a powerful, supernatural human and contained his own mysterious aspects that accompanied him. Also Beowulf is similar to Grendel ‘s early days when Grendel was unchallenged and ruled over his territory and did as he pleased until he was challenged by Unferth whom wasn’t a challenge until Beowulf was Grendel’s first challenge and so the same thing happened with Beowulf meeting his first challenge Grendel’s mother. On a peaceful day the unexpected happened and Beowulf had to account to Grendel’s mother emerging from the cave to cause havoc and Beowulf had to make another journey kill again. This journey to the lake was triumphant until Beowulf faced the battle against Grendel’s mom. During the actual battle with Grendel’s mother a sword was used in the essence of the battle, which was significant because this was the first time Beowulf has to rely on a weapon to defeat the foe. When Grendel’s mom poses to be more of a threat and …show more content…
So he is using the suit of armor and a sword to defeat the beast and his eyes are opened that he is in fact is a human and he feels worried that true first challenge may be the end of him. This transforms Beowulf more into a hero because he also realizes a hero cannot conquer every challenge alone which is why the hero must learn to depend on something other than themselves because a hero cannot do it all. A more human Beowulf faces the new battles with changed perception that involves humanity and a newer definition of heroism which is paralleled throughout the text in a series of journey’s. Beowulf’s character changes when he wins the battle with
Grendel’s mothers with a struggle and is traveling back to the land, because on that journey walking back to home it made Beowulf gain a newfound self- knowledge about challenges he must face with the decision to serve humanity in order to be a hero. For the first time the hero (Beowulf) braves challenges that helps him journey to who he must become to portray a hero, now relying on the assistance of humanity which furthers the idea of heroism. .Thus new self- knowledge is gained and