Nonetheless Beowulf was faced with this trial. It all started when a slave stole a cup from a fire-breathing dragon's treasure. After the dragon realizes that his treasure has been stolen, he goes on a rampage trying to find. Beowulf finds out about this rampage when the dragon destroys some mead-halls. However, Beowulf is not a young man anymore.
Hiccup wants acceptance from his peers and not to be put on the back burner, especially when he has finally done something right and does not get recognition for it. He is not always the first to follow orders, which ends up affecting his tribe. For example, Hiccup goes to fight a dragon and he does not kill it like he was supposed to. This results in his tribe having to leave and they take toothless the dragon with them. Another drawback is that Hiccup is not only physically small, but mentally small too, especially when he is being compared to bigger, better, and stronger Vikings.
This character is brought upon conflicts and challenged by inhuman creatures that threaten his existence and the perseverance of his culture. Throughout the epic poem, Beowulf battles three monsters. The adversaries and their conflictsare an allusion to the war against the fall of the Anglo-Saxon society, their values and morals The first beast he encounters is one described sinisterly as a dark, lurking devilish creature that hates humans and their qualities; and feasts on human flesh, terrorizing the Mead Hall of the Danes. This creature of the night is confronted by Beowulf in a graphic battle on which the herofights with courage as his only weapon. With little struggle, the protagonist rises as a victor in a symbolic fight against the disintegration of his society.
The battle is a sign that even though good has the advantage, good can never have an ultimate victory over evil. Through its powerful use of symbolism in Beowulf’s battles with Grendel and the dragon, Beowulf draws a clear distinction between good and evil, going on to show that the world is fated to a never-ending battle between good and evil. Throughout the poem, Beowulf matures from a good warrior to a good king. He follows comitatus; the relationship between the king and his thanes where the thanes are loyal and fight battles for their king, and in return, the king gifts them with winnings from the battle. A good king or warrior also pays wergild, the price a warrior pays to the family of a slain warrior.
The dragon symbolizes the ultimate source of mankind’s instinctual desires. The author of Beowulf states that “when the dragon awoke, trouble flared again” (Beo. line 2287), metaphorically alluding to the social problems that mankind faces when individuals act according to their instinctual desires. Even after Beowulf’s “sword had dispatched [the dragon]” (Beo. line 2772), Beowulf ends up passing away from the wounds he sustained in the battle.
And that’s what Beowulf does. Instead of instantly coming to the power, he takes on the guardianship of young Hygelac’s son, presenting another gesture of loyalty and respect to the throne, and at the same time proving himself worthy of future kingship. When the ferocious dragon starts to oppress Geatland, Beowulf, already a king, doesn’t hesitate to face up to the beast to protect his subjects, even if he senses his approaching death. Even the strongest and the most invincible man has to finally pass away for the one obvious reason
Complied of many different animals, the Chinese dragon evolved into a mystical creature praised by all. Through Chinese art, the dragon evolved from a limbless snake like creature to a complex animal, having traits of many different animals: a stag’s horns, a bull’s ears, a rabbit’s eyes, a tiger’s claws, and a fish’s scales, and a serpent’s body. This combination of these traits allowed the Chinese to believe that dragons were amphibious creatures with the abilities to not only move on land, but also fly through the air and swim in the sea. With these abilities, the dragons were granted the role as governors of the cloud and rain in the weather. The dragon is deemed as a symbol of wisdom, power, wealth, dignity, goodness, and fertility.
Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game demonstrates forcing children to go into wars and genocide, which have been issues in many other countries. Card presents genocide and forcing children to fight in wars through the character Ender; an eleven-year-old boy who is imposed into fighting and wiping out the whole bugger species. Card writes, “‘… You won every battle, and today you finally fought them at their home world, where the queen was, all the queens from all their colonies, they all were there and you destroyed them completely…’”(297). In this conversation, Ender realizes that it wasn’t a game, and all of the attacks he enforced were real. He actually committed genocide, something he clearly did not want to do.
Thomas is then crowned King and Flagg’s evil plans go to work. Flagg, through Thomas, raises the taxes of the people by 80% and makes executions by the hundreds. The book says. “The headman’s axe swung with the regularity of a clock’s pendulum since Thomas had ascended…” At this time Peter has already begun to plan his escape for the Needle. When he hears the news of what his brother is doing he begins to realize he must work fast, so he speeds the process of his escape at the risk of being caught.
However, he was a very good conqueror. He wasn’t even forced to go into this war. He decides to start wars because he thinks he has a lot of power. He could’ve been doing something good for other people but only came up with ideas to show himself. I think Napoleon is a bad leader because I don’t like leaders that focus