Beowulf Analysis
All works of great writing eventually become movies to satisfy the limited attention spans of the growing day and age, with alterations to main characters to make them Hollywood ready and modernizing the language in order to please the masses. As all text slowly begins its descent into digitalization, parts are lost as entities and ideas become viewable objects. After viewing multiple interpretations of Beowulf, the text emerges as a more successful and emotional version of the text due to varying strengths and weaknesses between the film and written versions.
Beowulf arose as a successful emotional piece in the text more due to the imagery. When the text reads “[Grendel] snatched up thirty men, smashed them unknowing in their beds, and ran out with their bodies,” (Raffel, 24) the passage elicits a more imaginative responds from the reader rather than the mind-numbing destruction that is in the movie. The movie, for a dramatic effect, had Grendel arrive to the party while everyone was awake. Grendel’s …show more content…
It had bundles of dialogue and tons of new context to motives and actions, but less ideas, which is symptomatic of the way the information is being conveyed. A movie has always been an easier way to absorb material in a passive manner and is the popularize form of learning the material rather than reading the book. The text causes the reader to think more about the characters and the environment; in the movie the concepts are absorbed without actually considering why. As an example from the text, “Their courage was great but all wasted: They could hack at Grendel from every side, trying to open a path for his evil soul, but their points could not hurt him… that sin-stained demon had bewitched all men’s weapons, laid spells that blunted every mortal man’s blade.” (Raffel, 36-37), the wording and way the text described Grendel provided more imagery, insight, and emotion than the movie
All works of great writing eventually become movies to satisfy the limited attention spans of the growing day and age, with alterations to main characters to make them Hollywood ready and modernizing the language in order to please the masses. As all text slowly begins its descent into digitalization, parts are lost as entities and ideas become viewable objects. After viewing multiple interpretations of Beowulf, the text emerges as a more successful and emotional version of the text due to varying strengths and weaknesses between the film and written versions.
Beowulf arose as a successful emotional piece in the text more due to the imagery. When the text reads “[Grendel] snatched up thirty men, smashed them unknowing in their beds, and ran out with their bodies,” (Raffel, 24) the passage elicits a more imaginative responds from the reader rather than the mind-numbing destruction that is in the movie. The movie, for a dramatic effect, had Grendel arrive to the party while everyone was awake. Grendel’s …show more content…
It had bundles of dialogue and tons of new context to motives and actions, but less ideas, which is symptomatic of the way the information is being conveyed. A movie has always been an easier way to absorb material in a passive manner and is the popularize form of learning the material rather than reading the book. The text causes the reader to think more about the characters and the environment; in the movie the concepts are absorbed without actually considering why. As an example from the text, “Their courage was great but all wasted: They could hack at Grendel from every side, trying to open a path for his evil soul, but their points could not hurt him… that sin-stained demon had bewitched all men’s weapons, laid spells that blunted every mortal man’s blade.” (Raffel, 36-37), the wording and way the text described Grendel provided more imagery, insight, and emotion than the movie