Beowulf Argumentative Essay

When Beowulf died, after the fight with the firedrake, Wiglaf was appointed king. Wiglaf was still very young at the time, so he was extremely inexperienced. He began training to become the best king in history. During his first day of training, he said to himself, “I will be just like Beowulf.” He went through all of his training trying as hard as he could to become exactly like Beowulf. After he finished the training, Wiglaf was dedicated to ruling the same way Beowulf did. He did everything possible to keep the country at peace, and that was his primary goal. Soon after training, he had a statue of Beowulf built in front of the great hall of the country. Once the statue was complete, he held a large celebration in remembrance of Beowulf.
He yelled “Hurray” because he was so happy and surprised. The celebration lasted ten hours. Everyone was having a wonderful time but, near the end of the celebration, during the tenth hour, one of Wiglaf’s best warriors tried to kill him. The attempt was unsuccessful; however, the warrior was able to escape along with four other traitors. The leader of their group was once Beowulf’s best friend. He felt that he should have been the king because of his strength and experience. He attacked Wiglaf because of his jealousy of Wiglaf. Despite Wiglaf’s wishes to keep the country at peace, he knew the traitors had to be stopped. His choices were to wait until the traitor group came back with more men to fight them or to hunt them down and stop them before they gain members. Wiglaf chose the choice that would keep his people safer. He gathered up six of his best, loyal men and set off to find the traitors. One of the men with him was an excellent tracker so Wiglaf knew they would find the traitors within a few weeks. For two weeks the group searched without finding anything, but then they came to a shore. The tracks on the shore led right to the water where there was evidence of a boat recently being