What defines us as humans? Is it the fact that we have thumbs? Or our capability to think and make moral decisions? Could it be how we have intelligence, and the capacity to be diverse? We tend to follow the customs of this world, following fashions, and customs. But in reality we just act like the rest, there's no difference between us; however our characteristics do stand out. The poem Beowulf creates this generalization of what a human being is; however it exaggerates and creates a false image of how human being are.
To begin with a true king is a true leader; however in the poem Beowulf, King Hrothgar is appeared to be a coward. In the poem it says that after Grendel had killed thirty men the king feared " He wept, fearing the beginning might not be the end", as a leader and a king he should've went himself and fought the devious monster instead he hid in his fear and in his men. Knowing that Grendel wouldn’t be able to touch him "In Herot, when the night hid him, he never dared to touch the king Hogarths' glorious throne protected by God..." he still didn’t dare to fight him alone and finish with his killing instead the people of Herot had to pay his cowardness.
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In the poem it doesn’t show any action, optimistic, integrity, any support or any courage to fight this problem off. As children we have heard stories of an epic king that is willing to fight for his people, for some of us we heard or seen the story of King Arthur and how he was brave and strong or in Disney movies we are exposed to see a brave king in a shinning armor willing to protect his people. However in Beowulf a foreigner had to protect his