You gain strength,courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,’ i lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along by Eleanor Roosevelt. The unknown author of the poem Beowulf shows courage and strength throughout his whole poem. Main characters are Beowulf which is the hero of the geats, Hrothgar, Herot, Grendel, Grendel's mother,Wiglaf and the dragon. The poem beowulf is known for a strong creature that protects Herot from Grendel also challenged to a dragon to show his techniques. In the poem beowulf there is many different themes one theme that beowulf uses is courage. Beowulf shows that he does not fear anything and can overcome …show more content…
Beowulf told “Hrothgar to salute him and show Grendel’s head and carried that terrible trophy by the hair.” (lines 853-855) This explains beowulf’s evidence to show his victory against Grendel. This also happens when he is talking to Herot beowulf arrives with his geats to show herot his trophy which was grendel's head to prove that he overcame that challenge. This is an example of courage because he knows that he will win the victory no matter what but he is sought to his leader that that’s going to be win and come greet him with grendel's head. Beowulf believes in himself that this battle against grendel will not be hard for him at all so he is telling his leader that he will win although he hasn't won the …show more content…
While he's fighting grendel's mother which wanted revenge for her only son that she had. For instance, Beowulf’s narrator says “he was weary, that best and strongest of soldiers.” (line 729) The narrator is mentioning on of grendel's characteristic.Furthermore, Beowulf saw that not even his sword would slice grendel’s mother skin off so he had to put his full strength in order to kill grendel's mother. This trait shows courage because it shows that beowulf is very powerful just by his strength alone without no weapons. To sum it up beowulf won over his fame by showing that he will never fear anyone and believing only on