Some people see similarities in today's society with the poem Beowulf. I believe that our society has many characteristics that can be viewed as similar with Beowulf. The roles in the story portray the way people are in today’s society. Beowulf has comparison to the real world as he is in the story: He is a arrogant being, a loyal being, and a ruler for all the land.
In the poem Beowulf, Beowulf is a very “confident” soul, he crosses his boundaries with very cocky and arrogant moves. In the book, Beowulf shows his arrogance by fighting Grendel (a swamp monster) with no weaponry, He states “The heavy war-board: hand-to-hand is how it will be, a life-and-death fight with the fiend.”(438) Beowulf carries himself with the bearing