The Three Battles In Beowulf

The book Beowulf compares a lot of different battles throughout the epic poem. Beowulf being the one who takes on these challenges goes up against three major monsters. He is challenged to go into battle with Grendel, Grendel’s mother and the dragon. In the poem Beowulf, he battles many monsters, one of them being Grendel. Grendel is belligerent to all mankind as he feels that God did not bless him with the same structure as humans, in turn he despises all things jubilant. Hrothgar, the King of Danes has a hall for festivities and meals called the mead-hall. At the mead-hall, beautiful sounds played by instruments start to agitate Grendel so he decides to go to the hall and eat all of the soldiers. This shows that Grendel can be a problematic …show more content…
Beowulf being the strong warrior that he is, tries using his sword that ends up not being strong enough, so he has to summon a stronger force. The battle ends with Grendel going back to his swamp to die. One of the battles fought that can be compared to the fight with Grendel is the fight with the Dragon. In the fight with the dragon, Beowulf is accompanied by many soldiers that coward away and leave his side after seeing the fierce dragon. There is one soldier that decides to stay and be loyal to Beowulf. When the fight starts Beowulf tries to hit the dragon with his sword but it does not work out and the sword breaks. After his sword breaks the dragon is able to bite Beowulf on the neck soon after leading to his own demise. Lucky Wiglaf stayed loyal and tried to fight the dragon by stabbing him, in turn the dragon takes Wiglaf 's hand. The fight ends when Beowulf stabs the dragon in the abdominal region, killing …show more content…
She lives in the depths of the lake so it takes Beowulf many hours to swim down and on his way he encounters many sea monsters that he must battle. When he gets to the bottom, Grendel 's mother approaches him and tries to crush him with her arms but luckily Beowulf’s armor prevented an early end to the fight. After Beowulf escapes the constraints of the mother, he takes a swing at her but even his enchanted sword is no match for her, almost like the fight with the the dragon. After he realizes that she is able to fight back with just as much force, he looks to the sword on the wall. The sword is fit for a giant and is not fit for any average human but Beowulf had the power of thirty men in each hand and he is able to behead Grendel 's mother. In all three stories, the blades used by Beowulf all fail and he always has to find alternate ways to fight. The story differs from the fight with her son because Grendel was caught in the act killing people versus when he fights Grendel 's mother, Beowulf goes to her to wreak mayhem. In the battle Beowulf versus Grendel, Beowulf has a home court advantage this can help as he knows the area better and also has more resources and has soldiers to help defeat Grendel. When Beowulf goes to fight Grendel’s mother he is in an unknown area fighting with no back up making it hard to kill