Beowulf’s Motivations
Before we get into Beowulf’s motivations, for why he challenges and purifies the world of Grendel and Grendel’s mother and later on a dragon, let’s discuss the poem itself. Of course, it is an epic poem. That type of poem, an epic poem, is a long narrative poem that tells a story. They always have an epic hero and in Beowulf it is pretty evident that Beowulf, himself, is the hero. It even says, in the Beowulf packet on line 910 “For the heartening words the hero had spoken” This is after Grendel has passed and already after his mother killed Aschere. The epic hero, again already determined as Beowulf, will take a long journey. Beowulf came from the Geats, now known as Sweden, and went to Herot, now known as Denmark. The epic hero has an epic battle, this includes Grendel and his mother who came and devoured men in Herot. Beowulf also fights a dragon, but that’s after he returns to Geats and 50 years later when he has already been king. Poems like Beowulf, usually …show more content…
That was almost their motto, taken into record the other two importance's from their culture. The people of the Geats told Beowulf, “It is your duty to go to the land of the Herot and fight Grendel.” One night, while Hrothgar’s men are in the mead hall, all sleeping from all the mead and all the eating, Grendel comes in and devours 15 soldiers and grabs 15 more for later. When Beowulf gets their, to Hrothgar’s mead hall, Beowulf says “I will fight him, but only if I can wear no armor and only if I can fight him bare-handed” Beowulf’s bare-handed and no armor battle intertwines with Glory, but that is something we’ll talk about when we get there. The battle ends with Beowulf, “who has the strength of 40 men in his hand”, ripping off Grendel’s arm and keeping it as a trophy. Grendel scurries along home, with immeasurable pain, and dies when he gets home. Then his mother gets engulfed with
Before we get into Beowulf’s motivations, for why he challenges and purifies the world of Grendel and Grendel’s mother and later on a dragon, let’s discuss the poem itself. Of course, it is an epic poem. That type of poem, an epic poem, is a long narrative poem that tells a story. They always have an epic hero and in Beowulf it is pretty evident that Beowulf, himself, is the hero. It even says, in the Beowulf packet on line 910 “For the heartening words the hero had spoken” This is after Grendel has passed and already after his mother killed Aschere. The epic hero, again already determined as Beowulf, will take a long journey. Beowulf came from the Geats, now known as Sweden, and went to Herot, now known as Denmark. The epic hero has an epic battle, this includes Grendel and his mother who came and devoured men in Herot. Beowulf also fights a dragon, but that’s after he returns to Geats and 50 years later when he has already been king. Poems like Beowulf, usually …show more content…
That was almost their motto, taken into record the other two importance's from their culture. The people of the Geats told Beowulf, “It is your duty to go to the land of the Herot and fight Grendel.” One night, while Hrothgar’s men are in the mead hall, all sleeping from all the mead and all the eating, Grendel comes in and devours 15 soldiers and grabs 15 more for later. When Beowulf gets their, to Hrothgar’s mead hall, Beowulf says “I will fight him, but only if I can wear no armor and only if I can fight him bare-handed” Beowulf’s bare-handed and no armor battle intertwines with Glory, but that is something we’ll talk about when we get there. The battle ends with Beowulf, “who has the strength of 40 men in his hand”, ripping off Grendel’s arm and keeping it as a trophy. Grendel scurries along home, with immeasurable pain, and dies when he gets home. Then his mother gets engulfed with