Waking up to dead men hanging above you after a great night of celebration, probably not a situation you want to be in. Grendel’s mother’s way of getting revenge for killing her son Grendel was this. Beowulf leaps up fuming, no one ever told him about a mother. Beowulf being the hero that he is agrees to kill the mother. Beowulf goes into battle on his own.
Antigone was very heroic and brave at first, Creon now punishes her, and she does not fight back, but she simply badmouths her father. “O Oedipus, father and brother your marriage strikes from the grave to murder mine (7.40-41) says a coward Antigone. Creon, on the other hand who is supposed to be the strong king of the land, does not manage to control his anger, and fights his own son in an argument. This can be considered a sense of pride, since Creon did not want to change his opinion. Part of being a tragic hero is having a destruction.
Hercules has a mother but she is the one that tried to kill him when he was a baby, and beowulfs mother is not mentioned in the epic which leads to believe that in order to be great hero a mother figure musn't be in the picture. in Hercules story he falls in love with a girl, almost kills himself for her by going into the lake of death where all the dead souls are. And Beowulf dosent have a girl he is is love with or any girl that he falls in love with he has no distractions, Hercules dosent really know how to control his massive streghth as a teenager shown by knocking over all the beams in his village and no one wanting to play with him because he causes so much damage, Beowulf does know how to use and control his power using it when necacary hes not known as a cluts, Hercules for the most part fights everything one on one, Beowulf has a group of tweleve men to help him fight Grendel in Harot. Partying and getting drunk is a theme in beowulf and in Hercules those arn't a theme. Hercules has a childhood that is told and shown, Beowulf does not have one that is mentioned in the epic.
Nothing Victor can do once he denies the creature a wife, will protect Elizabeth: ...suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream. It came from the room into which Elizabeth had retired...the scream was repeated, and I rushed into the room...She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed... Frankenstein's women are presented as intelligent, but also submissive... Laying the foundation for Ellis, Mary Shelley, and countless other women, Dr. Gregory, in his widely-read A Father's Legacy to His Daughters, gave this advice to his daughters in 1774: "if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts [i.e., ability] and a cultivated understanding." In Shelley's society, women were expected to "wear their learning modestly." In this story, she presents the creature the way she saw women in her society: "oppressed and denied
I cannot refer to Grendel’s mother as a true villain because I believe a villain a continuous act of badness. Grendel’s mother did not have a criminal record, nor did she have pervious accounts of doing bad things. A true a villain is a lifestyle and they have tremendous amount of boldness about themselves and they are not cowards. Even though Grendel’s mother overprotective of her son and ready for revenge, she attacked the Heorot Hall while the warriors were sleeping off the party. Then she ran back to her cave under the lake.
She is so intent on fulfilling her desires that Medea kills her own brother and manipulates the death of a king during their flight from Colchis. Medea refuses to let anything stand in the way of her selfish aspirations. In contrast, Dido is the loyal Queen of Carthage who never desired to love again after the death of her husband Sychaeus. She is forced to fall in love with the Trojan warrior Aeneas by the divine orchestrations of gods Juno, Venus and Cupid. Though her new found love intoxicates and causes her to forsake the duties of ruling, this is not by her design.
Beowulf Perspective Essay I was a beautiful and massive sword just minding my own business when Beowulf had to come and interrupt my peace. I thought he would have his own sword. She stole it from him, his sword and his shield. I hung there and watched. I watched as Grendel’s mother seeked revenge on the great Beowulf.
The feast lasted late unto the night unitll finally Grendel arrived. Beowulf fought Grendel unarmed, proving his strength to the Danes around him. Grendel struggled under Beowulf's strength just as Beowulf tore the monster's arm off. Grendel sank back into the depths of the swamp, missing an arm, as King Hrothgar and his mean cheer in victory. It was not long after Beowulf defeated Grendel, when his swamp-hag mother came from the depths of the swamp to Heorot seeking retaliation.
The motion picture Beowulf directed by Robert Zemeckis has some significant alterations in plot events compared to the epic poem. The film does an excellent job showing the terror that Grendel imposes on the Danes with his monstrous raids on Herot. It also supports the epic poems famous battle between Grendel and Beowulf with the epic hero killing the monster. But following this battle, major plot events has some key changes contrary to the epic poem Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel. Beowulf kills Grendel’s mother in the epic poem but in the movie he makes a deal with demon leading to his downfall.
Through Hagen’s actions of sinking Kriemhild’s treasure in the Rhine River and attempting to kill the monk to void the Nixes prophecy are both examples of Hagen’s desperation after killing Siegfried. The scene where Hagen kills prince Siegfried is a very controversial one. In the end, he stabs Siegfried in his weak spot that Kriemhild unknowing marked with a cross. After Hagan committed his crime, he realized that he would be dead if Kriemhild used her monetary strength to build an army of her own to revenge her husband’s death by killing Hagen. To stop her from retaliating, he later discards her treasure in the Rhine River so it could not be used to build an army against him.