Sadie Zamora Dr. Wesson-Martin English 1302 8 March 2012 The Draw of Darkness From the beginning of time, there have been constant battles between the forces of good and evil. An example in the Bible would be Adam and Eve versus the serpent. In Beowulf, there is Beowulf versus Grendel representing good battling evil. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, there is a perfect example of the battle against evil that young Frodo faces as he makes the journey to rid himself of the ring.
Beowulf’s goodness is described in his battle against evil, symbolized by Grendel, one of the monsters defeated by him. The epic shows conflict between good and evil. In the beginning of the epic poem Grendel, who represents evil, is introduced. He is a giant man eating demonic monster. Grendel lives in the darkness and appears from the shadowy marshes in the darkness every night to kill.
The Victim and the Beast The Legendary Epic, “Beowulf” and the novel, “from Grendel” are very different in many ways. Beowulf tells the story of a legendary hero, and how he slays the evil monster Grendel. Grendel causes much death, destruction and grief, with his blood-thirsty rampages on the town of Herot and needs to be killed. The battle between Grendel and Beowulf represent the battle of good versus evil. Upon Grendels defeat, Beowulf is looked upon as a great hero.
Act 1 scene 1 In a desolate place blasted by thunderstorms, Three Witches meet to predict the future. Act 1 scene 2 Scotland is at war. King Duncan faces not not only his own rebellious kinsmen but also an invasion by King Sweno of the Norwegians. In this scene, Duncan receives three significant reports: the death of the rebel Macdonald at the hands of “brave Macbeth”; Macbeth’s action against the Norwegians; and the treachery of the Thane of Cawdor, who has sided with the enemy. In each case, Macbeth’s heroism shines out, leading to victory for Scotland and surrender by Sweno.
Mounting Grendel’s arm in Herot, the heart of Danish society, represents society’s victory over the outsider. Grendel is seen as representing terror, horror and cowardice in the poem. At the moment of the story when Beowulf fights with Grendel, Beowulf is at his highest heroic stage. The narrator demonstrates to the readers this in various ways. First, Beowulf has come to Herot particularly to liberate Herot from the demon Grendel who has wreaked havoc on the mead hall for the last twelve years.
Grendel, a savege beast, continually devoured the people of Denmark, bloodthirsty, “ He moved quickly through the cloudy night […] Towards that shinning hall”(289-291). Good is being represented in a symbolic sense, referring to it as “shinning.” Since the hall (Herot) is where Beowulf and his men await Grendel’s coming it appears to be shinning, which is also in a sense is foreshadowing the success of Beowulf (since light is superior to darkness). The following also shows that a fight between these two sides is about to occur. Similarly, once Grendel attempted to consume Beowulf, “ The mighty protector of men meant to hold the monster till its life leaped out, knowing that fiend was no use to anyone in Denmark”(336-339). DiPietro-2 Again, good is being shown, in this circumstance the kenning “mighty protector of men” portrays Beowulf as a supernatural being of good and that it is his obligation to fight for humanity.
The boys prove man to be inherently evil through control, mistreatment, and murder. In The Lord of the Flies the boys on the island prove that humans are innately evil through excessive control. At the very beginning of the book Jack tries to control his choir, making them hunters. Jack said to Ralph, “I’ll split up the choir-my hunters that it,“ (Golding 42). Right here Jack already tries to imply that his choir is more savage than the rest of the boys by calling them hunters.
In all four of John Foulcher’s poems, a common theme of cruelty and brutality exists. He reinforces the theme by utilizing a number of techniques throughout. In Martin and the Hand Grenade, man’s destructive power is highlighted. In both A Crow that came for the Chickens and For the Fire, the cruelty of nature is implied. This is also evident in Harry Wood, in which we see the theme of death and survival.
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.
Constantly manipulating humanity through the comforts of life, Dante is a “badass” youth at odds with the demons that constantly hunt him and make his life a living hell for as long as he can remember. Now, since discovering that he is a hybrid of demon and angel he is the only creature in all of existence that has the power to defeat the demon King mundus. With so much stress and pressure put on Dante he is forced to change his lazy cool guy attitude and finally embrace his destiny as Dante the demon hunter. Absorbing the old fans with just the mention of a reboot of “Devil may cry” and bringing in new fans with the fresh new look of Dante and the sadistic story of “Devil may cry”. “DMC: Devil may cry” is intended for teenagers to adults, basically targeted at teenagers.