... that they are embraced and come into the presence of God upon death), yet he is given a proper Viking burial; a funeral pyre on a longboat (33). The first part of Beowulf starts with a recounting similar to the Bible story of Genesis. Grendel, when introduced, is given one of the ultimate stigmas in the Christian lexicon by being referred to as one of " Cain ... . The worst part of evil is that one is alone and without the joy of God. As John Milton says in the beginning of his work, Paradise Lost, in describing the devil; " for now he thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain in u...

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... beginning stages of the development of European literature (Hanczakowski 2001:23). The Iliad, followed by Odyssey are the examples of epic poetry in the early Greek literature, they "emphasized the ideals of honor and bravery and had an enormous influence on Greek culture- (Myrsiades 1997 ... personal limitations and attempted to eliminate them in order to change himself and the world as well. Later on, the innate battlefields changed for the battlefields of the Old English where physical strength, courage, loyalty were tested in the face of death, aware of his mortality. The physical ....

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