Wait for me close by, my friends“ (2530). Because of the intensity of this fight, he is lacking in the confidence category and uses actual weapons. Shockingly enough Beowulf doesn’t endure this fight alone, he chooses Wiglaf to defeat the dragon with him. Beowulf is seriously injured during this fight and ends up dying which concludes in his title as an epic hero. All in all, Beowulf’s transition starts as if a baby starts the stages of walking.
Beowulf the Hero A hero is someone who goes out of his way to do the right thing no matter what. In the epic, “Beowulf,” many things make the era in which our hero lives a dark and dangerous one. Monsters like Grendel and his mother terrorize people for no reason, and a huge dragon razes villages by breathing fire and hordes enormous amounts of treasure. When each of these dark beings arises, Beowulf shows the fortitude to challenge them with all his might and fury. These events show us that Beowulf is an epic hero because he possesses strength greater than anyone else in the world, he accomplishes great feats, impossible for anyone lesser, and his actions echo values of a good and strong leader.
This monster is by far the strongest of the three and shows attributes of a monster I face in my daily life, the fear of embarrassment. In the epic, the dragon is a creature who is angered by the fact that someone had stolen a treasure from the treasure trove it was guarding. If you want to get to the treasure the monster would have to be defeated. The two are similar in the sense that the fear of embarrassment keeps you away from getting what I want and the dragon was the obstacle in the way of the treasure and “fame” (Beowulf 610). This monster is ferocious and will leave you saying, “I wish I had”.
You’re hurting! All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of Frenzy […] that was a good game. Just a game.” (114-115) If Robert was not screaming and struggling to get out of the grasp of the older boys then he could of easily been killed and no one would have been there to stop it from happening. On the island, everyone believed that there was a beast that wanted to kill everyone. Simon figured out that the beast was actually a dead pilot attached to a parachute.
Beowulf angrily rises up with his great warriors to go out, find the dragon, and fight it. Beowulf quickly finds the dragon in a cave that holds the dragon’s large loot from his raids. Beowulf bravely tells his warriors that he will fight the mighty dragon alone. He confidently goes to the mouth of the cave and challenges the massive dragon. Soon after the battle begins however, Beowulf quickly realizes that he cannot defeat the might of the great dragon.
Beowulf has to fight a monster known as Grendel a monster that has been causing all sorts of hell to the Danes, then after he fights Grendel with no weapons or cloths, he has to fight Grendels mother then he fights a huge dragon. both are physically spectacular shown by Beowulf when he was racing Breca in chain mail and a one handed sword then is attacted by nine sea monster and kills all of them but sadly loses the race, and for Hercules he shows his physical power when as a baby two snakes where thrown in his crib and instently he grabbed them and tied them into a knot together. They both both ride horses, Hercules rides Pegasus, Beowulf's horses name isn't revealed. both have a sword to, beowulf has long hair and so does hercules showing that having long hair is a key to being a
Zeus is the King of all gods. He married his own sister. Zeus’ grandma, Gaia, gave Zeus a special sickle to help kill the dragons. Then Zeus set off for the underworld, the dreadful land beneath the earth where the dead lived. The dragon Gaia told him about was terrible.
Hercules sixth labor was to slay the Stymphalian birds. Hercules did this by using a rattle to get them to expose themselves, once they did he aimed his poison arrows and shot them all down. Hercules seventh labor was to defeat the Minotaur. He completee this by using brute strength to overpower it and banishing it back to the mainland. Hercules eighth labor was to bring King Eurystheus the mares of Diomedes.
The reason for him to fight is to protect his land and his people. “Then to Beowulf the disaster was told soon made plain, for his own home was burned, finest buildings, the hall in fire-waves, gift-throne of Geats. To the good king it was great anguish, pain deep in mind” (2324 – 2328). Unfortunately, he died in the battle, but he also defeated the dragon that burned his city. The examples above showed that there are different things motivated Beowulf to fight, depends on his maturity and the situation.
It was Good vs. Evil where a good warrior fights for his glory then later battles for the good of his people by battling evil monsters for there good. As a great warrior and later a king he faces near death. The first battle with Grendel he risked his life, but he did to reach fame for the glory and to prove that he is the mighty Beowulf. The battle with Grendel’s mother he fought for the greater good of the people to stop the terrorizing that they have done for years.