Character Analysis Essay

Mckenzie

Armon Mckenzie

Comp 2

Ms. Maxwell

1 January 2021

The battle of Beowulf and Grendel

Everything begins when the battle between Beowulf vs Grendel. It really talks about Beowulf who is the good person going against Grendel who is the bad person / animal in this story. The two characters are Beowulf and Grendel are similar in that they both died in battle but different because Beowulf is good, Grendel is evil.

Beowulf was the strongest man alive. No man can not lift more than him. Grendel is a powerful monster that lives in the darkness. In the story it said “ As day after day the music rang loud in that hall. The harp rejoicing call and poet clear songs “sun and moon” in this part Grendel don’t like music if he was scared. But he waited to tell the music to go off when everybody was asleep. Then he kills everybody who was up stairs But the jubilant noise from Heorot angers Grendel, a horrible demon who lives in the swamplands of Hrothgar’s kingdom. Grendel terrorizes the Danes every night, killing them and defeating their efforts to fight back. The Danes suffer many years of fear, danger, and death at the hands of Grendel. Beowulf and accuses him of being unworthy of his reputation. Beowulf responds with a boastful description of some of his past accomplishments. His confidence cheers the Danish warriors, and the feast lasts merrily into the night.

At last, however, Grendel arrives. Beowulf fights him unarmed, proving himself stronger than the demon, who is terrified. As Grendel struggles to escape, Beowulf tears the monster’s arm off. Songs are sung in praise of Beowulf, and the celebration lasts late into the night. But another threat is approaching.

Grendel’s mother, a swamp-hag who lives in a desolate lake, comes to Heorot seeking revenge for her son’s death. She murders Aeschere, one of Hrothgar’s most trusted advisers, before slinking away. To avenge Aeschere’s death, the company travels to the murky swamp, where Beowulf dives into the water and fights Grendel’s mother in her underwater lair. He kills her with a sword forged for a giant. According to beowulf wishes they burn their departed king’s body on a huge funeral pyre and then bury him with a massive treasure in a barrow overlooking the sea.

So Grendel and Beowulf had a good fight. My compare and contrast is compare is both them fight and they didn’t change side or nothing and my contrast