Beowulf: An Example Of An Epic Essay

An epic poem can be written and translated in numerous ways. When focusing someone's perspective in the main hero of the poem they come to the understanding of the physical and non-physical attributes of the character. For example, when concentrating in the poem Beowulf, many of the readers contribute to the idea of Beowulf being a strong and brave character. Furthermore, the claim here is not to understand the reader's perspective in Beowulf’s physical body, but to understand that being a hero does not have to include a strong body when the community around us face stronger struggles that include spirituality, economy, and personal battles, that are not fought with a physical sword at hand. In the poem Beowulf, Beowulf has a series of struggles that include fighting Grendel to protect his community within. His way of
"Every bone in his body quailed and recoiled, but he could not escape" (Heaney 51). In today's society we do not have to physically fight a Grendel to protect our society, but stand up for each other. An example, for example; is the community of Charlotte, North Carolina. In Charlotte, North Carolina, they are fighting for each other's rights as to why people should not be degraded based on a darker skin color. In the aspect of economy, both Beowulf and humanity have something in common, which is that both have to fight to accomplish lavishes. In the poem Beowulf, for Beowulf being able to earn gold, he has to be brave and fight monsters. In comparison to humanity, humanity has to be able to work day and night to earn lavishes or money to buy simply gold. Every human being that walks on this planet has faced a personal problem in their life, just as Beowulf. For example, in the poem Beowulf it quotes. “They have seen my strength for themselves, watched me rise from the darkness of war” (37). This defining that courage has many forms of showing itself, and hard work and leadership are included in the numerous forms of