The men are reluctant in finding the dragon. Beowulf wants to help his community, so he will not stop until he destroys the dragon. However, we see a different side of Beowulf.
He knows what is near, "Death-boding, wav'ring; Weird very near him. Beowulf's fate was very near him. This is foreshadowing the final battle, the final conflict in our epic poem. Let's read the part where Beowulf is reminiscing, or thinking about the days of his youth. Beowulf is boasting about his fearless ways of his youth. Remember, brave warriors and kings are expected to boast, so he was not being conceited. Back then, Beowulf had youth on his side.
He won countless battles and was rewarded well. Still, in his older age, Beowulf is seeking out the enemy. He expects to die a hero for what he has accomplished in his life. He isn't sure if he will win this battle or not, but he will die trying for his people.
Read the next part of the battle where Wiglaf fights with Beowulf for the first time. This battle is Wiglaf's first battle under Beowulf. Wiglaf is pleading to the other warriors to stay and fight because their lord, Beowulf, needs them.
He tells the others that he would rather die than go home without his leader. As he is talking, "The dragon came raging. Wiglaf is the only one of Beowulf's men to stick by his side. In and out of consciousness, Beowulf helps Wiglaf fight this fire-breathing dragon with courage and bravery. Beowulf gets out his knife and cuts the dragon. How do you think you would have reacted in this type of situation?
Have you ever heard of fight or flight? This is actually a physiological reaction that happens when we are in a dangerous situation. In the end when Beowulf was suffering, his soldiers were not by his side. Wiglaf descends into the barrow and quickly returns to Beowulf with an armload of treasure. The old king, dying, thanks God for the treasure that he has won for his people.
Whereas Beowulf is essentially invulnerable to Grendel and his mother, he is in danger from the beginning against the dragon. This poetic evocation of death as constituting movement from one realm to another—from the earthly realm to the spiritual one—reveals the influence of Christian ideology on the generally pagan Beowulf.
That Beowulf should be so adamant in his desire to see the treasure before he dies has puzzled many readers. It is important to remember that treasure objects often function as symbols of the transmission of values through generations or of bonds of kinship and loyalty.
Beowulf recognizes this symbolic function when he reflects that he would pass on his armor to his own son if he had one. His relief upon seeing the treasure demonstrates his desire to leave something to his people—a sort of surrogate offspring—when he dies. He knows that, even though he has slain the dragon, his victory will feel hollow if there is no subsequent enactment of the ritual of reward and gift-giving. That the treasure that Wiglaf finds is rusty and corroded, however, adds a pathetic, ironic quality to the scene.
Furthermore, these riches will be entombed with Beowulf, so that the treasure will be hoarded, in effect, rather than redistributed, as the heroic code normally demands. In a way, Beowulf is like the original burier of the treasure, who realized that he was the last of his line—he knows that his lineage will not continue. In the first two fights, we see a warrior confident in his indestructibility; in the last fight, on the other hand, we see a warrior aware of his mortality.
Beside above, who is the characters of Beowulf? Heardred - the son of Hygelac, king of the Geats, and his queen Hygd. Beowulf dies during battle with a dragon. In the second part of the poem, Beowulf has ruled over the Geats for fifty years , and he is a good leader. When the dragon attacks, it is worthy of note that he does not do so unprovoked. XV were Christian beyond doubt, and it is equally sure that Beowulf was composed in a Christianised England since conversion took place in the sixth and seventh centuries.
Beowulf was identified as a Geat which was a Viking culture that originated in Sweden. A Viking culture known as the Danes found in Denmark. In the poem Beowulf there was a place mentioned many times which was the mead-hall.
English Old English. Like all legendary stories , Beowulf mixes elements of fact and fiction, and there is historical evidence for many of the events that the poem depicts. However, there has been no evidence discovered of a real Beowulf , and scholars speculate as to whether or not the ' Beowulf poet' completely invented him or not.
This puts his final age between seventy and ninety years old, depending on his age when he assumed the throne. If he was between twenty-five and thirty-five -- a normal man's physical peak -- when he battled Grendel, then at his death, this age would seem appropriate. Beowulf is loosely divided into three parts, each of which centers around Beowulf's fight with a particular monster: first Grendel, then Grendel's mother, then the dragon.
Alternatively, one might make a division of the text into two parts, examining youth and old age as the two distinctive phases of Beowulf's life. Heardred Despite Beowulf's support, the young king, son of Hygelac and Hygd, is killed in a feud. Beowulf then becomes king of the Geats. Grendel A descendant of the biblical Cain, the enormous ogre despises mankind's joy. He menaces Hrothgar and the Danes for 12 years before facing Beowulf in battle.
His oldest son , Hygelac, follows him as king.
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