Leadership In Beowulf

Although Beowulf contains aspects of courage and bravery, it also contains leadership by leading a group of Geat warriors to kill Grendel, slaying Grendel's mother, and vowing to defeat the dragon. Beowulf showed a great deal of leadership when he led the group of Geats to Danes to defeat Grendel. The fact that Grendel had killed 30 mean at a time didn't even scare Beowulf away. When Grendel had came to the mead hall and tried to kill Beowulf he grabbed a hold of Grendel and ripped his arm off showing that he was not afraid (Loughman). “Beowulf boasts about being able to kill Grendel with his bare hands” (Post), he “creates an inspirational articulation of confidence in his own and in his companion's’ abilities to overcome adversity in the form of the monster” (Loughman) and is “fearless and supremely confident in his own abilities” (Loughman). Even though he boasts about being able to kill Grendel, he “indulged in his desires” (McArthur) and killed him. When Beowulf arrived back in Danes after Grendel was killed, “Hrothgar repays Beowulf “with a gold standard as a victory gift/ an embroidered banner: also breastmail/ and a helmet: and a sword carried high,/ that was both

“Comrades willingly go with him because of the confidence in his ability to lead them and to achieve their objectives (Loughman). When they got to the den Beowulf went in alone and slayed her himself (Loughman). Beowulf is not worried about the enemy, he just wants to keep the people out of danger and become a hero because “his mind is untroubled by envy or malice or the thought of enemies with their hate-honed swords (McArthur). Yet again, Beowulf “indulged in his desires” (McArthur) and had done what he had set out to do. After Beowulf had killed Grendel's mother, he returned home to become king; ruling for 50 years to come