Comparing Beowulf And Book Differences

There are many differences that makes Beowulf in the book, differ from the movie. Three would be the mother’s personalities, the battle of Grendel’s mother, and the death of the Geats warrior, Beowulf. The mother, according to the textbook; the mother in the movie plays an important role in the movie. During the battle of Grendel’s mother, there was one in the text but not in the movie. The death of Beowulf within the text and movie serves as a contrast, for Beowulf understood his wrong doing in the movie. The movie and book differ in a series of ways. According to Grendel’s mother in the textbook, she appears only after her son’s death while battling the warrior Beowulf. She was very silent and left with no words to be said; however, she did kill the Danes along with Hrothgar’s right hand man, Wulfgar. In appearance the mother was said to be a long she-wolf sea like creature. She also live under a lake. The mother in the movie appears in the death of her son too, but she kills both the Danes and the Geats warriors. Only Beowulf and Wiglaf was left alive to see another day. Unlike the mother in the book, the mother in the movie have spoke from time to time. She was not an ugly she-wolf creature, but she was a shape shifter who can turn into a women to deceive men. She did not fighting throughout but use her

He was in this cave where he and the she-wolf fought a long battle. Beowulf when all hope seems lost, finds a magic sword he uses to stab Grendel’s mother. He leaves the lake carrying Grendel’s head as an trophy for the Danes. In the movie there was no battle only a conversation that Beowulf and the mother of Grendel had. The mother had agreed to leave them alone as long as the treasure remained in the cave. Beowulf also gives her a son who is later the monstrous dragon that hunts