The quotation shown from Beowulf presents that the people who lived at that time became to have an unsympathetic mind towards their own lives and the others. As the quotation stated, “better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning,” the king kept arousing the evilness deep inside the people’s heart and got rid of the merciful mind. Moreover, this could presents the people at that time may values the desireness rather than the sympathetic feeling.Through forcing people to be an evil, concept of violence in people’s mind would become more lenient and motionless as the time passed. Also, the poem, itself, expressed that people are fighting over to get a power and to satisfy their desire of obtaining. The second part of quotation in the “Beowulf” presented the death as feeling of cold- hearted, violent and unimportant. Through stating about the death as “means waiting for our end,” it reveals that ‘end’ might containing two different meaning. First of all, the death. The people are not valuing the lives but to think death as matter of course. The people who lived in this time were not living to live but living to die. On the other hand, it may be meaning them to stop acting violently as it stated as everyone living in the world ‘means waiting for our end.’ As they were acting so violent and brutal, …show more content…
Even though people didn’t think death as an valuable nor important thing, they thought death through obtaining glory is valuable. As stating “Win glory before death” with confident tone, it showed that winning the glory means to become successful which later lead to the death.Without gaining the glory may define as the failure according to the flow of the phrases. To gain the glory, people are acting violently and selfish before the time of death comes. This phrase arouse the sympathy of the people living in this time as competing until the