... its fond attachment to its treasure, almost an obsession," then can one really blame am animal acting through instinct and purpose? While the monsters of the poem are the antagonists of the poem, the author still manages to make the reader feel traces of sympathy for them. Grendel's human depiction, exile and misery tugs at the heart of readers and ... ...
... helps relate culture values to the Anglo-Saxton time period. Pagans believed in demons so the demons in the poem had to be convincing to that culture. 20. The major antagonists in Beowulf had to be supernatural in order for the audience to believe Beowulf was very strong. Beowulf would not be considered an epic hero if he was being defeated ... ...
... culture as to how fame and reverberation in poetry could provide defense against death. Through these three interpretations of Anglo-Saxon literature the culture is defined by the use of antagonists and relation to the Other. Almost all examples from the book Beowulf can provide an adequate expression of Anglo-Saxon culture. Possibly through the use of other literature and poetry ... ...
... 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 ... ...
