Nishan Hosten Pundit. Why was it hard to kill Beowulf? The sword melts to its hilt after Beowulf uses it to decapitate the corpse of Grendel, which lies nearby. Shaun Diop Teacher. How is Beowulf's method of killing Grendel's mother ironic? Irony is a discrepancy between expectation and reality. What is ironic about the way Beowulf kills Grendel's mother?
Beowulf kills Grendel's mother with her own sword. Beowulf wants Grendel's head as a trophy to replace the shoulder, arm, and claw stolen from Herot by Grendel's mother. Libby Diz Supporter. What is the name of Beowulf's sword? Irshad Hatesohl Supporter. How is Grendel different from his mother? Grendel and his mother are similar beings.
The thing is that they have some glaring differences. Grendel killed for revenge of his banishment under the earth while his mother was killing to revenge his son. Both lived at the bottom of a lake with many other earth dwelling monsters. Clemencio Alen Supporter. Does Beowulf rips off Grendel's arm? Their battle concludes with Beowulf's ripping Grendel's arm off , fulfilling his promise to Hrothgar to kill the monster with his bare hands. Beowulf nails Grendel's severed arm to the mead hall rafters and, although Grendel runs away , he is later found to have bled to death in his underwater lair.
Chunxiang Harriolha Beginner. Does Beowulf cut off Grendel's mother's head? As the Geat champion dives deep into the lake, the mother waits and attacks only when he nears the bottom.
He is virtually helpless as she drags him to the dry, eerily lighted cave for the kill. Once on dry land, however, Beowulf is able to mount a counter-attack. Although his sword, Hrunting, loaned to him by Unferth, fails to penetrate the mother's hide, Beowulf discovers a giant magic sword in the cave and is able to kill the mother with it.
The sword melts to its hilt after Beowulf uses it to decapitate the corpse of Grendel, which lies nearby. He returns to Heorot with a greater trophy, the head of the ogre, as well as the hilt of the magic sword. Some critics feel that Grendel's mother receives inadequate consideration in the poem.
However, the way these two characters carry themselves is much different than the way Hamlet does. He, himself speaks of Laertes and Fortinbras as people who are basic contrasts to him. The reader understands this in Act IV, Scene iv where Hamlet describes Fortinbras and his valiant character and promises to become somewhat more like him.
Beowulf arrives and devises a plan to kill the beast at night when he comes to attack the soldiers while they are sleeping. The monster escapes and later dies. Beowulf tracks her to her underwater cave and kills her with a magic sword. This affects Beowulf because his reputation is vital to him.
Beowulf fires back with a reminder that Unferth killed his own kin. To prove himself, Beowulf informs the King Hrothgar of his new expedition, killing Grendel. In line of Grendel's mom, it tells how Beowulf murdered her. Hamlet is essentially a story based on revenge. The play opens with the outside guards seeing the phantom of the recently deceased King Hamlet. When his son is summoned to him, he tasks him to get revenge for his death. Young Hamlet then spends the following days planning every move of his revenge until he accidentally kills the father of Laertes in an act of misguided rage.
The fire from the dragon 's mouth melts the contribution from the king made beowulf useless of his weapon. Now beowulf is defenceless but still he continues to fight; beowulf gets bit by the dragon leaving him on his deathbed from the poisonous dragon. Before dying Beowulf tells Wiglaf to go and get the treasure to bring it back to him. So Wiglaf goes and gets the treasure and comes back; Beowulf then tells Wiglaf that he is to be the next king because he stood by him.
Knowing he is at the end of his life, Beowulf goes to slay the dragon, and does, but not before the dragon bites him and Beowulf dies as a result of his wound. His people throw him a great and respectable funeral because he was such a great ruler to…. Beowulf goes to a land where there are struggling people. King Hrothgar and his people are suffering because the men of the country are being slaughtered be Grendal, a monster of the dark that comes in the night to slay for sport.
Once Beowulf kills the monster Grendal, more terror arises, yet he seeks out the cause and slays the she-wolf too. In the end of the poem, but many years later, Beowulf seeks out his fame by slaying a dragon that is guarding treasure, but even though the…. Beowulf In the poem, Beowulf, a warrior from Geats comes to help Hrothgar, the king of the Danes whose land is being attacked by a monster, Grendel. Beowulf is successful and kills Grendel.
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