Comparison Of Beowulf And Speech Before Her Troops

Speeches have been in throughout time and life, when your principal was giving a speech at your school assembly or during a graduation when a teacher speaks to the new graduated students to get ready for life up ahead for them. But what about speeches for battle? There are two speeches that are about battle, “Beowulf” and “Speech Before Her Troops.” In “Beowulf” it is about a general named Wiglaf that is going with his comrades to fight a dragon for his king and his land, but then they left him and coward out. This speech is about Wiglaf’s words to his men to come back and fight, to also remember that he needs them. “Speech Before Her Troops” is about a queen that talks to her people that she won’t let her enemies invade her country, promising the people that they will fight back and lead them to victory over their enemies. From
Following this further, “Speech Before Her Troops” is the most motivation speech because the queen is willing to protect her people, country, and reign. Her country, now attacked by the enemy, (Parma or Spain) she cannot stand this and will fight back. “Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, at this time, not for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all;