Beowulf Compare And Contrast

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Beowulf the Movie and Angelo Saxon differences and simularities
There are numerous similitudes and contrasts between Beowulf the motion picture which was made in the year 2007, and the poem by an obscure Angelo Saxon poet. A large portion of the likenesses and contrasts are clear. The poem was changed into a motion picture and was more advanced and simpler to see then the epic poem itself. The movie happens to be more modern and gives the audience a better understanding of Beowulf and what happened during his life. It also helps the audience visualize it rather than having to picture the occurences while reading the poem. The author of Beowulf is a mystery, as most poets of the Anglo-Saxon period are. He might have been a court poet, or …show more content…

It is stacked into pontoons as ruin, gave out in bowed bars as corridor blessings, covered in the earth as fortune, enduring underground as an insistence of a people 's magnificent past and an epitaph for it. Before the end of the sonnet, gold has experienced a radiation the Christian vision. It is not that it yet measures up to wealth in the medieval feeling of common defilement, simply that its status as the metal of the sum total of what esteem has been placed in uncertainty, however in the movie gold was a symbol of moral corruption if …show more content…

The motion picture demonstrates Grendel as honest and in this way give the viewers a misconception of all the transgression that he has commited. He is appeared as pure and innocent yet like a youngster. After Beowulf executes Grendel he meets with Grendels mother to thrashing her and all the brutality Heorot has been included in. One of these distinctions happens to be in the poem, Grendel murders the Dane who wronged him and continues to make tracks in an opposite direction from Beowulf, however as Grendel is fleeing Beowulf gets his arm. In spite of the fact that Beowulf gets his arm in the poem but in the movie this scene played out extremely differently. Grendel runs and and Beowulf grabs a rope and Grendel gets stuck on it, Grendel cuts his own arm off with a specific end goal to make tracks in an opposite direction from Beowulf and alternate Danes. In the motion picture Beowulf has no part in removing Grendel 's arm. Also in the poem Grendel is not mentioned as being Beowulf’s son. In both movie and poem Grendel does lose his

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