... 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 ... ...
