In Beowulf, the theme of Christianity is clearly evident throughout the poem’s entirety. Many Chaucerian critics have spoken of the Christian allusions woven in the story including FR. Klaeber who wrote,

“The Christian elements are almost without exception so deeply engrained in the very fabric of the poem that they cannot be explained away as the work of a reviser or interpolator” (Klaeber 1). These engrained elements Klaeber speaks of are strongly found in the battles of Beowulf and the three antagonists of the poem, Grendel, his mother and the dragon, whereas each battle represents the struggle between good and evil.

Early in the poem, Beowulf appears as if an agent of God to “calm the turmoil

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