Enter the Dragon

strong. And he’s gotta be fast. And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight” (Tyler). Like Bonnie Tyler, the Geats need a hero to protect them. Beowulf comes to the Geats’ rescue by ripping Grendel’s arm off, decapitating Grendel’s mother, and stabbing the dragon. The almighty Beowulf exhibits superhuman strength, uses cunning tactics, and displays sharp skills with a sword. By playing to his strengths, Beowulf wins “trophies” from each of the monsters he defeats to show off his pride. Beowulf’s…

By defending the Danes from Grendel, his mother and the dragon, Beowulf repays his family's debt to Hrothgar while obtaining glory in the process. Beowulf battles the evil Grendel to prove his heroism to Hrothgar and his kingdom as he slays the beast. As a warrior, Beowulf cares deeply about his reputation and…

Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf. Beowulf tells the story of a mighty warrior who defeats a monster named Grendel with his bare hands, swims to the bottom of a lake for an entire day to kill Grendel’s mother, and dies fighting a terrifying fire-breathing dragon in order to save his people. The hero, for whom the epic is named after, has incredible strength, and the ability to swim underwater for hours on end. One scholar states, “The struggles the poem depicts are of the good against evil: strength of…

For one, Beowulf has ruled Geatland as the king for fifty years before the fifty-foot long dragon decides to burn everything the king knew and loved to the ground.(Beowulf, 151) Additionally, Beowulf’s fights the beast for an entirely different reason: the creature destroyed Beowulf’s homeland. Beowulf’s old age during this battle has a noticeable…

Andrew “Ender” Wiggins was chosen at the six years old to go to Battle School, a school where children were taught small units tactics and leadership to learn to one day become leaders in the military. Over the course of the four years that Ender was at Battle School, he was molded by his instructors and peers to be the best leader that Earth had ever known. Ender appears to have a situational leadership style. The Center for Association Leadership describes situational leading as “Links…

There aren’t very many creatures in Once Upon a time. It's mostly just the princes and princesses or any human in any fantasy story. One of the rare occasions that it has shown a creature would be a dragon, and it didn’t have much screen time. Also, most creatures aren’t talked about in the show, the dragon was the most talked about creature. Another rare creature in the show is fairies, but they only show up every once and awhile. In Once Upon A Time, the producers go along with the story.…

person didn't have a strong reputation they were looked down upon and gain no respect. In this book reputation is referenced In different types of examples. These examples are from all the battles Beowulf encounters. The first time is when Beowulf enters Herot hall and talks to Unferth. When he arrives he doesn't just say his name and where he came from, he gives a list of all of his plans on how he is going to kill Grendel. He says in the book "I battled and bound five beasts, I raided a…

As a satire the movie, Shrek is extremely enchanting and successfully adds a sense of realism to the “fairy-tale” characters that we have all come to know and love. This realism created by the film flips the way the audience perceives each character. Though due to its animation it may be hard for one to simply accept all that is happening, but Shrek has the ability to encapsulate the viewer and place them on an adventure into the land of faerie, up until the end of the movie when the viewer…

his swamp. This is when the something new enters the hero’s life. Shrek wanting to be alone again is the catalyst that sets the story into motion. Shrek’s call to adventure is noticed after he sets out a journey to convince Farquaad to give Shrek his swamp back, but Farquaad who wants to become the King, tells Shrek the only way he would rid his swamp of all the fairy tale creatures is to rescue Princess Fiona, who in a tower guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. At first Shrek is reluctant to go…

She enters the land of Herot with a vengeance until she was greeted by the warriors and feared for her life. She quickly fled, but not before seizing one of the warriors that were one of Hrothgar’s most trusted men, his chief warrior, and her son’s arm. Beowulf…