... him at his side, but he soon becomes domineering and makes Janie an object of his status as the affluent mayor of Eatonville. This makes him one of the key antagonists in the narrative. Tea Cake, Janie's third and presumably last husband, also is important in Janie's quest for a life of fulfillment. After Joe's death, Janie finds comfort in Tea Cake ... ...
... a monster is able to abide by the tenets of the human system, showing, through symbolism, its inherent weakness and faults. And so, as one can see from analyzing the two antagonists from Beowulf, monsters can be both outside threats to the societies which they torment, and inner representations of those society's evils or faults. Whether these failings are physical, metaphysical, behavioral ... ...
... 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 ... ...
