Beowulf - Hero of the Geats

Beowulf, is an epic metrical composition that takes place during the 6th century. In this poem, Beowulf, a true scrapper of the Geats, comes to the help of Hrothgar, the King of the Danes, whose mead star sign is glide pathed by a reprehensible monster known as Grendel. one time Beowulf kills him, Grendels aim attacks the hall and is then withal beaten by Beowulf. Victorious, Beowulf goes post and later becomes King of the Geats. subsequently close fifty years, Beowulf overthrows a dragon, but is brutally hurt in the fight. Throughout the poem, penalise is portrayed by several(prenominal) of the characters such as Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon.\nGrendel hates nothing more than the pleasure happening in the mead hall. Grendel seeks revenge in Beowulf because of the loud, and obnoxious amounts hinderance that has been coming from Heorot. Grendel waits for all of Hrothgars warriors to fall asleep, and then attacks the fresh built mead hall. Quickly, Hrothgar and his people crawfish from the hall, and Beowulf and his men quickly pervert in. When it comes to fighting, I count myself as dangerous some(prenominal) twenty-four hour period as Grendel. So it wont be a cutting edge Ill wield to mow him down, well as I might, (Heaney 47) is what Beowulf says as he awaits Grendel to attack for a second time. As the night goes on, Beowulf and his men be woken up by another attack by the cruel Grendel. Without any weapons, Beowulf and Grendel have a battle. Once Beowulf pulls off the arm of Grendel, the skirt chaser attempts to go home, but cannot stupefy it, and he slowly dies.\nGrendels mother is respectable as heinous as her son. When Grendels mother finds out about the killing of her son, she immediately seeks revenge. Where she is hiding, glutting on the corpse and the glorying in her escape, I cannot tell; she has taken up the feud because of last night, when you killed Grendel (Heaney 93) just comes to show that Hrothgars warriors are expecting Grendels mother to attack. She takes ...