Poetry

Poetry GOOD AND EVIL The conflict between good and evil is the poem's most important theme. The poet makes it clear, however, that good and evil don't exist as mutually exclusive opposites, but that both qualities are present in everyone. Beowulf represents the potential to do good- to perform acts selflessly and in the service of others- while Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon are consumed with the blind desire to act against people and to destroy them. Yet pride, a human quality, is also a sign that evil exists. It's important, as Hrothgar points out to Beowulf, to protect oneself against feeling self-satisfied; good, evil, society, important, beowulf, you've, poet, makes, human, dragon, code, clear, bond, between, against, while, warriors, warrior, understanding, trust, transitoriness, theme, sign, service, selflessly, self-satisfied, self-important, rules, represents, relation, relate, refusing, quality, qualities, protect, pride, present, powers, potential, points, poem's, perform, people, out, others, opposites, oneself, one, never, need