Revenge And Violence In Beowulf

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Revenge/Violence in Beowulf “He grabbed and mauled a man on his bench, bit into his bone-lappings, bolted down his blood and gorged on him in lumps, leaving the body utterly lifeless, eaten up hand and foot (738-744)”. This is one of the multiple quotes shown in Beowulf that reveals the revenge/violence that occurs throughout the book. Beowulf seeks revenge on Grendel and his mother and vice-versa as acts of violence are being depicted on all three characters. As shown in the book , revenge/violence plays a key essential role in the main characters’ lives. Author Seamus Heaney describes the violence that occurs in Heorot Hall as quick and “Suddenly then the God cursed brute was creating havoc: greedy and grim, he grabbed thirty men from their resting places and rushed to his lair, flushed up and inflamed from…show more content…
One of her quotes read that “Grendel escaped, but wounded as he could flee to his den, his miserable hole at the bottom of the mnarsh, only to die, to wait for the end”. Her revenge for the murder of her son is first observed when she invades Heorot. Grendel’s mother is not just a monster, she is a mother who has human-like characteristics due to the fact that she is sad that her son was killed by the men. “Roared out a battle cry, a cry so loud and clear that it reached through the.....hung in the dragon’s ear. The beast rose, angry knowing that a man had come”. Beowulf, to get the dragon’s attention yells out to it, like a cheetah who chase’s it’s pray into a trap and catches it, but Beowulf only had himself. He definitely made the ultimate sacrifice for his people and risked his own life so the revenge-seeking dragon could inflict the pain upon him. Overall, these quotes and example shows evidence that throughout the book, every character observes some kind of revenge/violence, whether being inflicted by them or simply upon

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