EN 5

Write a 500 word essay on how similarities and differences in how characters are depicted in at least three of the literatures listed below.

Beowulf

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50114/beowulf-modern-english-translation

Anglo-Saxon Judith

https://www.elfinspell.com/JudithStyle.html

Dream of the Rood

https://english.nsms.ox.ac.uk/oecoursepack/rood/translations/hamer.html

The Wanderer

http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=wdr

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

https://www.yorku.ca/inpar/sggk_weston

Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale

https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/pardoners-prologue-introduction-and-tale

Piers Plowman (read only Passus 18)

https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/piers-plowman-passus-xviii

Shakespeare's Henry V

https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/henry-v/read/