Examples Of Loyalty In Beowulf

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Is there anyone or anything that the reader has ever been loyal to? Has that someone or something ever done the reader wrong, yet the reader had stayed loyal? Being loyal can be a hard decision depending on who or what one is loyal to. Being loyal to someone can be a bad choice, yet it can also be a smart choice. Sometimes there’s no way to tell until it’s too late. One should be loyal if he/she truly believes that it’s worth it. Other times, one should probably not be. Take Hitler for example. Should there had been more people who were loyal to him? Most would believe that no one should have been loyal to him, since he slaughtered the Jewish. Others, on the other hand, may have thought differently. In a Hitler situation, it was probably

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