Theme Of Loyalty In Beowulf

Beowulf is a poem that represents loyalty. Beowulf’s author was an unknown Anglo-Saxon poet. Beowulf tells the story of the main character Beowulf, who was the bravest soldier of Geatland. The story is based on narrating the heroic achievements of Beowulf the victories over Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon. Grendel was a powerful monster that threatened Hrothgar’s kingdom. Beowulf is a warrior that decides to help Hrothgar by killing the beast that has been menacing Herot. Beowulf is accepted and admired because of his courage, and when he confronts Grendel, he victoriously kills the monster with his bare hands. Beowulf poem is mainly composed with the theme of loyalty, since Beowulf remains loyal to his position, and also other characters throughout the story represent loyalty. Beowulf is the character who demonstrated loyalty at every step of his journey. He decided to help Hrothgar’s kingdom although Grendel was not his problem. Beowulf’s father Edgetho, a famous soldier and a leader of man, let a very
He confronts a dragon that was menacing his kingdom and decides to fight it to demonstrate one more time his strength and ability. He was confident with himself and believed that he was still capable enough to kill any beast. But for the first time in his life he noticed that he was fighting with fate against him, the flames of the dragon hurt him to agonize, and while he was helpless and unable to fight back, out of all of his noble soldiers who ran for their lives “…only one of them remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, as good man must, what kinship should mean” (948). His name was Wiglaf, another character who represented loyalty. He remained loyal to Beowulf until his death. Loyalty is strong being exposed in the poem. Beowulf and the character Wiglaf proved devotion and we can recognize that among all of the involved, they were the characters who represented