Theme Of Revenge In Beowulf

At some point in everyone’s life we seek revenge, in the epic poem Beowulf, revenge is within everyone including the hero, Beowulf. Beowulf fights in three major battles, the battle with Grendel, the battle with Grendel’s mother, and the battle with the dragon, ultimately ending his life in the final battle. The story is driven by the character’s need to right the wrongs created by their enemies by killing them; Grendel hates partying and loud singing, therefore he kills the Danes in the mead hall in revenge for their unbearable noise, Grendel’s mother takes revenge on Beowulf for killing her son, the dragon takes revenge on the people for his stolen treasure, and Beowulf takes part in the cycle of revenge on each of the characters for the killing of his men.
Grendel, the monster that lives in the moors, loathes the partying that happens at the mead hall. When he hears the music and singing it annoys him, the epic reads,"In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient as day after day music rang" (Beowulf 21). He decides to take revenge on all the Danes for making so much noise.Grendel, the descendent of Cain, has
The witch travels to Heorot, the mead hall, kills a few of Beowulf's soldiers, kidnaps Hrothgar's advisor, and takes Grendel's fleshy arm. Hrothgar tells Beowulf that he must take revenge on this witch and go to the mother and kill her. So Beowulf travels to the "lake that burns like a torch" (Beowulf 35) seeking the swamp hag. He finds Grendel's mother in her underwater home, the "she-wolf" (Beowulf 36) dragged Beowulf down into the murky water to the battle hall where Beowulf then decapitated the swamp hag with a magical sword. Beowulf takes Grendel's head to Hrothgar to prove that he has avenged the deaths and kidnappings. The revenge has ended between the terrors of Heorot and