Beowulf and Grendel
Title: Beowulf and Grendel
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 2325 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Beowulf and Grendel
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 2325 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 2325 total…own brother, Grendel often has been understood to represent the evil in Scandinavian society of marauding and killing others. A traditional figure of medieval folklore and a common Christian symbol of sin, the dragon may represent an external malice that must be conquered to prove a hero's goodness. Because Beowulf's encounter with the dragon ends in mutual destruction, the dragon may also be interpreted as a symbolic representation of the inevitable encounter with death itself.