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Beowulf

The Pagan’s epic poem Beowulf is a heroic saga about the young prince, Beowulf, who goes overseas to fight the kinsmen’s of Satan, which in the story is referred to as the descendents of Cain. The story explains the battles that every one will fight in their own lives and how only people of God can overcome the many obstacles that he has set for all of mankind to overcome. This is very odd because of the fact that pagans did not believe in the Christian culture. The story also gives the impression that if there is any evil in your heart or the heart of your people that your own society will eventually collapse. The only way from stopping the collapse is if there is a person of a different nationality that interferes. The person who interferes must be from a society who is free of sin. Many of the weapons that were used in some of the battles were also symbols of good and evil. There are many references and images of good and evil that are trough out this story that was intended for a pagan culture.

In the beginning of the story, Beowulf hears about the many killings that plague the Danes and how an unknown monster, later referred to as Grendel, is coming about and causing havoc at Heorot Ha

The story goes on to show that people never stop having difficult situations to deal with until they die. Just as Beowulf, fighting the dragon, Grendel, Grendel’s mother, should he have taken the cursed sword and other difficult situations he had to face. Also the story shows how some one from a different nationality is a crucial necessity if your society has been corrupted. First Beowulf helped the Danes and later the Swedes helping the Geats.

The story does not come out and tell you in plain text that this is what it is about. It has to be read thoroughly and examined carefully so that a person can receive his or her own meaning of the literature. What is really sad is that perhaps no one will ever get the true meaning of this heroic piece of literature because it was changed from its original context. In the beginning, it was originally an oral piece of literature from the Pagans. Who did not believe in God, and monks, who do believe, were the only people at this time that had the ability to write. In the story there were lots of references to our Lord, God and Satan, which makes me believe monks wrote and changed the original story. It changed the original meaning that the pagans intended it to have. That is why literature has to be examined carefully and thoughtfully so that people can draw their own conclusion and not someone else’s meaning.

ll. The story says, “So times were pleasant for the people there/ until finally one, a fiend out of hell,/ began to work his evil in the world” (Beowulf 34). This quote is not only referring to Grendel but to Unferth as well. Unferth is one o

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