paganbeo Beowulfs Pagan Traditions :: Epic Beowulf essays

Beowulfs Pagan Traditions         Beowulf, an grand poem written in the late tenth-century, in the kingdom of the westward Saxons, steeping with pagan tradition, this epic depicts nature as hostile and forces of death uncontrollable.  unsighted fate chooses random victims and muckle never feel at sleep with the world. Also Beowulf ends as a failure to help heal the wounds of his society.   Although at that place are parts of this statement which can be construed as true, for the almost part, it doesnt give Beowulf the credit he deserves.  For someone whose life was cut short, Beowulf did some great deeds for his time in the world.    The statement illustrates nature as hostile and forces of nature uncontrollable.  This fraction of the statement is contradicted in the beginning, as the scope is being described, ...these beautiful plains marked off by oceans/then proudly setting the sun and moon to glow across t he land and the ignitor it...(8-9).  This sets the scene as peaceful, soothing and calm.  The corners of the earth were do lovely with trees/and leaves, made quick with life...(11-12).  When you think of oceans and trees, it brings a sense of reassurance of natures beauty, not its hostility.  Within Beowulf at that place are obvious places where nature isnt on the peoples side, and galore(postnominal) problems arise during this interlocking tale, but this opening landscape paints a different picture of the period, which followed me end-to-end the rest of the poem.    Despite the fact that many innocent people pass outd in spite of appearance the poem, the phrase, blind fate picks random victims can be used for many instances.  This phrase is even true today many innocent people are random victims of violence within our society.  Fate isnt something that can be argued lightly.  In Grendels introduction he, Snatched up thirty me n/smashed them inadvertently in their beds...(37-38). This can be taken to mean that these men were meant to die that night at the hand of the evil monster Grendel, that it was their fate.  But on the other hand, on line 36 it states, He slipped through the admittance and there in silence... Which indicates that Grendel didnt try to handpick his victims, but just went for anyone that he could grab.