The Monsters In The Epic Of Beowulf

In the epic poem, Beowulf, the hero Beowulf nobly battles and defeats three different monsters throughout the novel. First, he battles a demon named Grendel with only his bare hands. Next, he fights Grendel’s mother with his bare hands, but finally slays the beast with her own sword. Finally, he barely escapes death while combatting a hoary dragon.
When King Hrothgar asks Beowulf to fight and kill Grendel, the beast who had been wreaking havoc on the great mead-hall, Heorot, the hero travels to Denmark to fulfill this quest. After Beowulf arrived to Denmark, Grendel set out from his swamp in search of blood. When Grendel breaks into Heorot, he quickly turns to retreat when he meets Beowulf. Beowulf wrestles the monster to the ground, gathers his strength, and rips the beast’s arm off of his body. Grendel then retreated to his home and died from the wound he received in battle. …show more content…
She enters the Mead Hall while everyone was sleeping and flees with the advisor of Hrothgar in the Mead hall while everyone is sleeping, and quickly flees with him after the other men in the hall gather their weapons. Hrothgar asks Beowulf to seek out Grendel’s mother and kill her for the many wrongs they have inflicted upon his people. Beowulf swims for a day to the bottom of the lake until he meets Grendel’s mother. Beowulf fights her with only his bare hands at first, however, he realizes that they are equal in strength and that he cannot possibly defeat her without the use of a weapon. He grabs a giant sword hanging on her wall and proceeds to slice through the monster’s neck, instantly killing