Examples Of Sympathy In Beowulf

1b) The three examples of sympathy and no sympathy in Beowulf, the first of Beowulf telling his very boastful story, one of Grendel origins and the third of feeling sympathy for Grendel because of his origins. The first is when the reader is supposed to not feel sympathy for Beowulf when he boasts about his adventure at sea "...I was the strongest swimmer of all. / …. Each of us swam holding a sword, / a naked, hard- proofed blade for protection/ against the whale- beast. /.... pinned fast/ and swathed in its grip, I was granted one/ final chance; my sword plunged/ and the orderdeal was over/"(line 534-557). Beowulf as tradition goes has bragging rights but this also gives our narrator an unreliable edge because it is not possible to hold your
Showing her rank by her elegant clothes and red stocking, also eluding that she is likes her lovers. Wife of Bath is the opposite of the Nun loud and modern, not what a woman should be by their standards. Chaucer’s states, “There was a good WIFE OF beside BATH, /But she was somewhat deaf, and that was a pity. / Her kerchiefs were very fine in texture; /… Her stockings were of fine scarlet red, / Very closely laced, and shoes very supple and new. / She was a worthy woman all her life:/ She had (married) five husbands at the church door, /She knew, as it happened, about remedies for love / For she knew the old dance (tricks of the trade) of that art./ (Chaucer lines 445-476). Chaucer again eludes that she knows how to perform an abortion, “She knew about remedies for love” giving her rank as experienced and her behaviorism give air to a woman who can do what she pleases even though she had five husbands which was abnormal for the time
Even, when it was writing of not our time period. The style of narration created a frame by frame story where the narrator is telling us a bit of history about Don Quijote and then when Quijote goes into an insane battle between another suitor. Cervantes then breaks the fourth wall as it were, and has the narrator tell the reader that he does not know the ending of the battle “We left off the first part of this history with the courageous Basque and the celebrated Don Quijote, their swords bared and uplifted, each ready to smash a furious stroke at the other – a stroke a furious, indeed, that were both blows to have landed squarely on target… and at exactly that moment of sire uncertainty the pleasant tale was broken off… nor did the original author give us the slightest idea where we might find the missing part.” (Cervantes 50). This is a metacognitive because it is an afterthought of the original story, the narrator is talking about the original author and how he cannot find the missing battle story. The way he writes the story with simple language few words that are something that the commoner would not use. The narration style gives the book a personal closeness not the formality of a book of the period. Another example of the closeness the narrator feels towards the reader, “In a village in La Mancha (I don’t want to bother you with its name) …. Our gentleman was getting close to