The sword melts to its hilt after beowulf uses it to decapitate the corpse of grendel which lies nearby. This is due to the ambiguity of a few words in old english which appear in the original beowulf manuscript.
The dragon is a mighty and glamorous opponent an appropriate match for beowulf.
Grendels mother beowulf dragon. Litcharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in beowulf which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Beowulf grendels mother lines 12511407. Beowulfs motivation for battling against grendels mother beowulf feels as though he must battle grendels mother because it is the honorable thing to do.
Grendels mother who is never given a name in the text is the subject of ongoing controversy among medieval scholars. Beowulf will fight grendel grendel s mother and the dragon. When the angry dragon mercilessly burns the geats homes and lands beowulf decides to fight and kill the monster personally.
Characters grendels mother grendels mother like her son is a mysterious humanoid creature. Grendels mother killed the kings most trusted warrior in revenge for grendels death. The dragon in beowulf meanwhile is more.
Grendels mother is one of three antagonists in the anonymous old english poem beowulf. Grendel and his mother are giants feared by all but beowulf the dragon is the protector of treasure and will stop at nothing to keep it safe. She is introduced in lines 1258b to 1259a as.
Litcharts llc 22 jul 2013. Beowulf grendels mother lines 12511407 litcharts. On his return from heorot where he killed grendel and grendels mother beowulf becomes king of the geats and rules peacefully for fifty years until a slave awakens and angers a dragon by stealing a jeweled cup from its lair.
The unique personal end that awaits every person. Yes beowulf has to kill her but in launching an attack in retaliation for her sons death grendels mother has actually behaved as it were correctly. Some critics feel that grendels mother receives inadequate consideration in the poem.
The other antagonists are grendel and the dragon all aligned in opposition to the hero beowulf. He returns to heorot with a greater trophy the head of the ogre as well as the hilt of the magic sword. The dragon is so well suited to bring about beowulfs downfall in fact that some readers have seen it as a symbolic representation of death itself.
She enters the poem as an avenger l1258 seeking redress for the death of her son at beowulfs hands.
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