Grendel's Conflict In 'Beowulf'

Beowulf When a person thinks of the famous epic Beowulf and all the conflicts in Beowulf they can think of is the fight between Grendel and Beowulf and although this is a major conflict, the story has various such as the fight between Grendel’s mother and Beowulf, The Danes and Grendel, Beowulf and Grendel and the final battle between Grendel and the dragon. So although
Although the biggest conflict seen in the story was between Grendel and Beowulf the reader also finds that Beowulf gets into other conflicts with Grendel’s mother, the battle between the battle with the dragon but the Beowulf isn’t the only one in this poem that had conflicts the reader also sees the conflict between. “She welcomed him with her claws, / clutched at him savagely but could not harm him,” (lines 475-476).This quote from the Epic states to the reader the hate and anger she had towards Beowulf for killing her son. She continued to show more of her anger and rage throughout the fight. She brought him down into the water and to her home in the lake All efforts to easily kill Grendel’s mother were hopeless “But her guest/discovered that no sword could slice her evil/ skin that hrunting could not hurt her, was useless” (Lines 495-497) Grendel’s mother was determined to avenge her only son that she had lost to Beowulf. As the battle rages on between the angry water witch and the warrior it finally comes to an end with Beowulf killing Grendel’s mother and taking her head as
Grendel struck fear into the Danes causing Herot to be vacant for years. He put them through
Hell for 12 years. Eventually stories about the horrible monster began to travel and ended up being heard by a fame and power hungry warrior named