Essays on Beowulf

A minor character is a character who plays a smaller role in a story. These characters interact with the main characters in order to help contribute to the plot. Every single detail within a story is planned for a specific reason. Seamus Heaney’s translation of...

In modern-day movies and novels, the hero captures the audience’s attention as they take on an epic journey. In literature, an epic poem is described as a long narrative poem outlining the heroic events taken by a character of high status. Society obsesses over the...

Beowulf is an epic poem that was written many years ago and is still praised in today’s times. A lot of this poem is written around the heroic code, and it praises it. It speaks highly of the importance of strength, courage, and loyalty that...

In the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf’s strength, courage, and leadership enable him to embody the values of the Anglo- Saxon time period and represent an epic hero. Beowulf often encounters catastrophic situations in which he often intervenes. The code of ethics of an epic hero...

 Sacrificing yourself to be a hero, to protect the people that you love, knowing your life is on the line. Willing to fight with goblins and spirits, not only one but three. Beowulf, an epic poem translated by Burton Raffel, Beowulf is the strongest of...

The virtue of leadership can be seen through Beowulf, St. Paul, and Aeneas. Beowulf proves his great leadership skills throughout the epic poem. He takes on the challenge of Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon. Beowulf agrees to aid King Hrothgar of the Danes in...

An allegory is a piece of art that conveys hidden messages such as morals or values. In this case, Beowulf conveys the elements that we need to build an ideal civilization and the whole story compares the forces that help build a civilization and those...