Good Vs Evil In Beowulf

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Beowulf, A New Telling by Robert Nye, shows how that although he had many weaknesses, by acknowledging them they became his strengths. Beowulf cages his own evil, and by doing so, he allows himself to fight the other evils of the world. Beowulf, although he had his own evil, chains it. This separates him from the evil beings of the story, such as Grendel and She, and allows him to fight them without losing his life. The theme of this story is light against darkness. A place with elements of light within the story is Hall Heorot. ¨By day, it towered above mens heads like a second sun, so bright were it's walls and roof.¨on page 5. A place with elements of darkness is the fen, because it was ¨full of evil thing that feared the light.¨ on page

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