Beowulf

Beowulf Beowulf The three main events of Beowulf are the fight with Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon. The first section of the poem deals with the lineage of the king and Beowulf’s family background. Some of the values that a good hero should have are explained, and related to the main character, Beowulf. The next section involves revenge and how the Danes need a hero to defeat the monster Grendel who is attacking the people of the town. The tension between good, evil, right, and wrong are themes that radiates throughout the entire course of Beowulf. Grendel, the first monster that Beowulf fights is one of the first true Biblical references that appear in the poem. Grendel is said to have descended from Cain who in the Old Testament book of Genesis, who kills his own brother Abel. This statement makes you believe that Grendel has some human characteristics, and is a representation of evil. Moreover, you can infer that if Grendel is a descendent of Cain, so is his mother. The three monsters in the poem are clear examples of evil, but are also symbols of the internal tension between right and wrong within an individual. Beowulf’s first beowulf, grendel, evil, poem, grendel’s, mother, town, revenge, main, leads, hero, good, first, fight, character, beowulf’s, youth, wrong, themes, right, people, king, ends, dragon, danes, community, christian, between, attack, act, vengeance, unlikely, true, throughout, three, tension