A:
"Evil" in Beowulf is presented as
the devils. First, although the author only used little lines to describe, it
mentioned that the devils split into a thousand forms of evil, which includes
spirits, fiends, goblins, monsters, and giants. The antagonists in the epic are
monsters, which are Grendel, his mother, and the dragon. First, Grendel went
into the hall again and again to eat people. He enjoys killing the people and
cannot satisfy. Grendel bought death, tragedy, sadness, and fear to the Danes. After Grendel was finally killed by Beowulf, his mother
came for revenge. Although Grendel’s mother killed people for revenge, she did
take away many lives. In the epic, the dragon is also considered evil. “Evil”
in the epic is anything that is against human and took away people’s lives.
Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon are defeated by Beowulf because they
attacked human and killed people. Devils are described in the epic as “A brood
forever opposing the Lord’s/ Will” and will be “again and again defeated”.
Beowulf is the hero in the epic. He
represented the heroism and he has all the properties that usual heroes have. He
is young, have power, have responsibility, and is really brave. He defeated the
monsters again and again (Grendel and Grendel’s mother). He protected the
people living in the hall, saved a lot of lives, and brings peace back again
and again. Even when Beowulf turns old, when he knows that another monster (the
dragon) had appeared, he went to defeat the monster. This shows his courage and
his responsibility of protecting his people. To me, having the responsibility
of saving other people’s life is also a very important property for a hero.
Beowulf appeared in the epic as a hero, and fought the evil till his death. Heroism
maintained itself into the epic by showing the properties of a hero by Beowulf.
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