Beowulf Book And Movie Comparison

For over thousands of years, a poem has been told and has been passed on through generations of families. This poem is called Beowulf. Beowulf is an old Anglo Saxon poem that got told throughout many years by scops and would be accompanied by a lyre. It was very famous and would be told often at different places where there were a lot of people. This poem is one of the first to be told in the old-english language. However after various years of being told it finally got written down. But recently, there have been various movies that have been produced that tell the poem of Beowulf, the warrior who fought bravely against monsters. In the Beowulf movie and poem, there are similarities and differences in the comportment of a hero, gender roles, and in the role of religion, which reveal themes that reflect both Anglo Saxon and modern societies. The first example of the similarities and differences in the poem and the movie is the comportment or behavior of the hero. In both the poem and movie, the hero who is Beowulf, acts very
By almighty God, I'd rather burn myself than see/Flames swirling around my lord...¨. In lines 89-91 they use paganism because it is stated ¨And wondering what the bravest of warriors could do,/And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,/Made heathen vows, hoping for Hell´s...¨, the old stone gods are in fact the pagan gods. However, a difference in the role of religion is that Paganism is used more than christianity. In the scene where Hrothgar and Unferth are talking, Hrothgar mentions that they should pray to the pagan gods that things go well and then Unferth buts in and says ¨and to god¨ in the Christian way but then Hrothgar kind of shrugs it off and ignores him. This can relate to societies now because most areas use more than one religion and some areas still have a subtle war with