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1. I love how is talks about the weaknesses and strengths of being a Mormon. That interests me because there are people who only dis on Mormons. It always seems like non-Mormons say how self-righteous we are and how morons are the devils. Its like there’s two sides, the hypocritical Mormons or the unclean, sinful non-Mormons. In reality we are all hypocrites ands unclean in some way. This article just tells both sides without offending anyone, it tells us how the world really is. Marilyn Friedman explains she is a little Jewish girl and doesn’t understand why she went to a BYU Mormon school, until she actually meets everyone. “They couldn’t be nicer, humbler, more respectful.” I think she was that we are all just people with different religions. …show more content…

I thought bringing the heroic cycle would be a great way to get a good story line that resembles Beowulf and his life. Well first off my story will be about a stuck up teenage boy that happens to get cancer and that goes through all these trials. The teenage boy just got told he has cancer and a 50% chance of surviving. His allies of course will be his wonderful parents and his smoking hot girlfriend. As in Beowulf he has his trusty soldiers behind him, ready to fight. When the teenage boy “crosses the threshold” the cancer finally catches up to him. He goes through all these trials of his girlfriend breaking up with him cause she said, “Its to hard for me.” and he has to go through all these treatments including chemo. As goes for Beowulf, he goes up against Grendel and his mother to the death. Beowulf saves his experiences by being able to tell his story and he keeps a part of Grendel as a gift or treasure. The teenage boy receives gifts and gets well soon cards; the lord must have been on his side because he seems to be getting better. He becomes a whole knew, better person and returns to his normal self but mentally even better. As for “sharing the gift” the boy volunteers at the hospital where he was treated and tries everyday to make the kids with cancer smile. Beowulf’s story ends with one last battle that saves the town but ends his life as well, he was able to share his treasures with

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All seemed well until, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and takes back her son’s arm. Beowulf walks back into the hall after all of this is over and hears Hrothgar lament the death of his counsellor. Hrothgar realizes that Grendel's mother was just trying to avenge her son. This attack brings out the stories of the country people and their monster stories. Off in the distance, Beowulf hears a mere and he bolsters courage from Hrothgar.

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The main characters in the story are Beowulf, Grendel, Grendel’s mother, the dragon, and Hrothgar—king of the Danes

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In M.A Roberts’ Beowulf the story of a great hero, Beowulf, is told. The story follows Beowulf as he goes from being a warrior, simply trying to pay off a man-debt, to becoming a king who is later forced to return to battle for a final time. He was truly qualified as a hero being that he was characterized as both abnormally strong and courageous. However, the main reason he is characterized as a hero is due to his story, similar to other epic heroes Beowulf is no different and had to endure the hero cycle containing flaw, restitution, and resurrection.

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The story of Beowulf successfully follows every step of an Archetypal Hero Quest; the hero, Beowulf, answers a call, makes a decision, prepares, faces obstacles, reaches a climax, and returns home. Beowulf is met with three large battles within Beowulf, first with Grendel, then with Grendel’s mother, and his last fatal battle, with a dragon. Each battle carries aspects that add to the Hero Quest but do not fully create one until all are together. The call is the beginning of a Hero Quest.

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In this poem, Beowulf is the tragic hero and the protagonist. Beowulf says, “As I sat in the boat with my band of men, I meant to preform to the uttermost what your people wanted or perish in the attempt, in the fiend’s clutches. And I shall fulfill that purpose, prove myself with a proud deed or meet my death here in the mead-hall”(632-638) expressing the danger of the quest. This means the hero must endure through the many life-threatening obstacles and dangerous enemies or die trying. The narrator shows the courageousness of Beowulf saying “the prince of the rings was too proud to line up with a large army against the sky-plague.

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In Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney, religion and hell are referenced to many times throughout the story. “Because the poet 's obvious references to religious matters are infrequent and elementary, he would-appear to have had a slight grasp of Christianity as we understand it, unless he disguised his erudition with characteristic Anglo-Saxon understatement (Whallon).” Chapter two of Beowulf “is most interesting when it collects the familiar evidence for Christian education in the early Anglo-Saxon (Parker)” era. When he speaks of the arrows of the devil in lines 1743 through 1744, “Grown too distracted. A killer stalks him, An archer who draws a deadly bow,” “one may therefore look to a passage in Ephesians, observe that the image was common

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Dat To The stages of human life in “Beowulf” “Beowulf” is an adventure about a hero named Beowulf, who fights monsters to protect his people and his kingdom. The battle between Beowulf and the three ferocious monsters represents the fight between humans and their difficulties in life. All three vicious monsters symbolize different stages of human life such as, controlling jealousy in early age, dealing with morality in middle age, and facing death in the end. Grendel, a descendant of Cain, exemplifies a horrible image of an outcast or loner from Herot society.

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Beowulf is the main hero in the poem, and he travels to the land of the Danes to help King Hrothgar get rid of the monster Grendel. After having slain Grendel, there is still a huge crisis present. Grendel’s mother comes to the Hall of Heorot to avenge the death of her kinsmen by killing Aeschere. Aeschere is one of Hrothgar’s most trusted advisors, and his loss bear’s heavy on Hrothgar’s heart. In the culture displayed in Beowulf, the bonds of friendship and kinsmanship are very important to the characters.

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Before the Roman conquest of Britain, the Anglo-Saxon faith was rooted in Celtic paganism. The original scop of Beowulf, although unknown, can be almost certainly tied to this religion. Although Celtic paganism heavily emphasized the importance of Wyrd, or fate, it had no form of an afterlife. Instead, the Anglo-Saxon people took on heroic tasks in hopes of gaining fame. If they succeeded, this fame allowed them to live forever through storytelling.

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Beowulf, the oldest surviving epic poem, has been recognized as one of the most important works of Old English literature. It deals with battles, warrior culture, and redemption in a Germanic society. Many writers have analyzed the relationship between Christianity and Paganism in Beowulf, and how these were a depiction of an early medieval Scandinavian society. J. R. R. Tolkien, renowned author of the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series, presented his view on the Pagan and Christian elements found in early medieval societies, as shown in the poem Beowulf. Tolkien explained that the poem shows “the nearness of a pagan time,” and with it “the shadow of its despair, as an intense emotion of regret” is conveyed throughout the poem (Tolkien).

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Christopher Reeve (AKA the 1978 superman) said that, “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles”. Both Beowulf and Modern day heroes are similar in that way in that they fight for the common good of people. That quote from Christopher Reeves on what a modern day hero is, also applies to the epic hero qualities that Beowulf has. Similarly Beowulf and a modern day hero defeat an evil so that good can prevail. Some examples are, Beowulf Slaying Grendel and Grendel's mother to save the land of the Danes, and soldiers fighting enemies that threaten the lives of a country, and police officers putting criminals behind bars.

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This make the hero face a challenge and the beginning of change. When Beowulf had heard about Grendel he got a ship and sailed

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