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Warrior- Timed Writing #1
In the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf, there were many unbelievable and supernatural
parts of the story. The movie, Beowulf, made the unbelievable parts
believable. Three of these unbelievable aspects were: Grendel, Grendel's mother, and
the fiery dragon.
Grendel was originally told as an evil beast,
"spawned of slime." This monster ate people just because it felt like it.
In your mind, you know that Grendel could have never have existed, but the
Anglo-Saxons were writing about something. The movie made Grendel into a
whole gang of men who believed they were bears, who came when it was foggy out. They
wore bearskins and acted the part of a bear. The Anglo-Saxons were afraid of these
people and hired Beowulf to fight them. This told why Beowulf was there and what the
people were afraid of.
An old woman in the movie told the warriors to kill
the mother and the bear people would go away. In the epic, Beowulf killed the mother
because she had killed a man in revenge for her son. The thirteen men went inside
the home of the bear people, which was a large cave that led to the ocean by waterway.
Beowulf wouldn't let any of his men help in slaying the mother bear, and was
poisoned himself. She was just a creepy old woman with bones in her hair. she
was a driving force with her men, but they still fought. it realistically explained
that she was just human like the rest of her colony, and not a supernatural monster.
As fog came, the thirteen warriors in Hrothgar's land
saw fire stretching in the country. At first, they believed this to be a gigantic,
fire-breathing dragon. The Arab rode into the hills for a child and discovered it to
be a Calvary of bear people with torches. In the epic, this was Beowulf's last
battle, a fight with a fire-breathing dragon. Even so, the movie explained why they
were disillusioned, the fog and the fire. One man in the movie even said that he
would have rather it be a dragon.
Beowulf, the movie, made the original epic
into a believable story. Many men came and attacked Hrothgar's people every night in
the blackness of night and the covering of fog. Since they did this, the people were
disillusioned, and believed this army to be one of supernatural statures.
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