We can first see the matter of pride in the Anglo-Saxon story, Beowulf. Pride is evident in Grendel the monster. He obviously thought he could kill whomever he wanted whenever he wanted, which is pride. Beowulf was also proud, but it was portrayed as a good quality. He took pride in his life, in his country and in his honor.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has a very clear portrayal of pride. Sir Gawain was proud because he believed that he could fight the knight, which he successfully did, so he had a reason for his pride but that was no excuse for it.

I believe that pride really is the root of all evil. When you think about it, anything you do can be traced ultimately back to pride. In Medieval culture pride was the worst of the seven deadly sins. There was a big deal made about pride. This is why it is portrayed in so many of the stories. The stories of today do not claim pride to be the main problems.

So we can see throughout British literature the issue of pride. It was obviously very important to people back then, and even though they made light of it often, I believe it had to come from some fear of pride and it’s wickedness. We could learn a lesson today from the past times. If pride was a big enough issue to write about back then, then perhaps we should evaluate our own lives and make sure that we ourselves are not captured by the chains of pride.

Another story with pride as a central theme would be The Faerie Queen. Red Crosse was a bit prideful leaving Una, truth. He assumed he would be better off alone. Also, Duessa was very prideful. She believed she could do whatever she wanted and she didn’t care about who she hurt or what got in her way. Plus, Red Crosse was able to see a parade of the seven deadly sins in this story, and so Pride was there and was the queen of the deadly sins.

There is always something else, even though you can still trace it back to pride. Perhaps people of today are to prideful to admit that pride is their problem so they would rather ignore the issue than address it. But that didn’t stop the old writers, they continued writing about pride. Maybe i

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