... 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 ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 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 ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School