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    metaphorically reveals light’s eventual victory in Beowulf’s battle with Grendel‚ in Beowulf’s first skirmish with Grendel’s mom‚ and with the imagery created at the beginning and end of days. The author creates a realistic picture during the battle between Beowulf and Grendel. Throughout the scene‚ light and dark portray events according to their corresponding characters. Beowulf‚ the hero‚ symbolizes light and goodness while Grendel symbolizes darkness and wickedness. The poem describes him as demonic

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    Beowulf can represent some of the qualities we should want. The first of the three monsters is Grendel. Grendel was an outcast in the Dane society. “He had dwelt for a time/ in misery among the banished.” (l. 104-105) He is a descendent of Cain‚ therefore expected to be evil. And when King Hrothgar

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    are present in everyone. Beowulf represents the ability to do good or to perform acts selflessly and in help of others. Goodness is also showed throughout this epic as having the ability to cleanse evil. Even though evil is presented by GrendelGrendel ’s mother‚ and the dragon‚ who are filled with a desire to act against people and ultimately destroy them‚ even pride‚ a human quality‚ is presented in Beowulf as a sign that evil exists. This story might even be considered a classic because it mainly

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    defeated Grendel. Evey: That’s..very...valourous.

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    Now I mean to be a match for Grendel‚ settle the outcome in single combat./ my one request is that you wont refuse me‚ who have come this far‚ the privilege of purifying Heorot‚ with my own men to help me‚ and nobody else. (Heaney 425-432). In this passage‚ Beowulf is describing to Hrothgar why he has come to Denmark. Foster writes that a quest has five elements‚ a quester‚ a place to go‚ a stated reason to go there‚ challenges and trials‚ and a real reason to go there. Beowulf is the quester. The

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    When Beowulf found out that the Danes‚ led by Hrothgar‚ were being harassed and attacked by the monster Grendel‚ Beowulf set out on a quest to make sure that Grendel would cause no more harm to Hrothgar and his people. While he was on his quest to defeat Grendel‚ he would need to use his superhuman strength to kill the monster and save Herot from its tormentor. After his battle with Grendel‚ he returned back to his homeland with riches and treasure and became the king. His final battle was with

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    can this lead to his death? Beowulf tells all these great stories of what he had done. A warrior who feeds for more battling and wants to travel to help Hrothgar (King of Danes) with the fierce monster Grendel. He wants to take on the challenge as a warrior and tells the king he will defeat Grendel. The great Beowulf tells great tails to the people about how he conquer lands and defeated so many monsters

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    monster Grendel‚ who is truly an evil entity. Only an epic hero with strength‚ courage and confidence is able to defeat this mighty foe. This hero’s name is Beowulf. He displays all of these throughout the epic. Beowulf’s first epic hero trait is confidence. Beowulf displays confidence when he talked to Unferth in the great hall Heorot. Beowulf said‚ “…but he will find me different. I will show him how Geats shape to kill/ in the heat of battle” (601-603). Here Beowulf says that Grendel would not

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    unfamiliar with until we talked about it in class. The relationship between Grendel and existentialism was profound to me not only in the way that it drew lines of symmetry‚ but in the way that it helped me to interpret the concepts behind the philosophy. This quote spoke to me because it demonstrates how Grendel is pressured into living an existentialist lifestyle by the very forces that he says push upon him. Grendel delves into the psyche of a man-beast whose only choice is to react to the world

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    was being held so high by the people of his era. He was fight for the glory not for the gold. Beowulf out smarted the large Grendel and causes the amputation of grendel’s arms and soon he banished away to his lair. The victory of Beowulf was regarded so highly and the whole of Dane rejoiced. But the happiness did not look long because as Grendel was died‚ the monster mother becomes furious and killed so much more people‚ and king Hrothgar has this famous mead hall wher the merry making is being taken

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