BeoWulf; Translated by Burton Raffel

Beowulf:

Personality: A little Cocky

he's strong, strong willed, Nice, does

anything he can to help and/or show off

Physical: Big; Strong; Muscular; Powerful

Beowulf; Burton Raffel

Denielle Cloud

Period 1

Characters

Beowulf-Protagonist; hero.

King Hrothgar-King of the Danes

Grendel-Demon monster descended from Cain

terrorizing Herot; antagonist

Grendel's mom- an old hag who remains un named.

Grendels's mother, obviously.

The dragon -powerful serpent,guards a horde of treasure in a hidden mound

Unferth- Warrior in Hrothgar's court; challenges Beowulf

Welthow-Hrothgar's Wife

Higlac-King of the Geat's Beowulf's uncle

Shild- legendary king of the Danes and Great

Grandfather of Hrothgar

Wiglaf-Relative of beowulf; young warrior

welthow-Hrothgar's wife

Exam thingy

I think the authors purpose

was to entertain us and to kinda teach that good always triumphs evil.It could be informative about the bible back in those days and teaching that good always triumphs evil, always. but I mostly think it was to enterain the people. it made for a good play and too keep attention.

Exposition of Beowulf

There was a monster derived from

Cain's(Cain killed his brother Abel out of jealousy; they were the sons on Adam &Ever) side named Grendel. Grendel

was from Satan; Grendel does not know love; God's powerful love. Grendel will never know that love, he is a descendent of hell. Hrothgar is a man of God.

Conflicts/Problems

Grendel is terrorizing the people of herot

He's killed many

Unferth doesn't think Beowulf can kill Grendel;

challenges him

Grendel's mother wants vengeance for Grendel

Beowulf is getting old.

Resolution

Near the end; there is a dragon that needs to be

killed and Beowulf goes to kill the dragon and he

goes by himself without his army. Wiglaf a commited

aide to his lord goes with him; beowulf defeats the

dragon, but dies himself because the dragon but his neck and it was too much..Wiglaf takes over. The people of Herot doesnt have to worry anymore, or live in fear.

Rising Action

The rising action in the story is Grendel is terrorizing

the people of Herot because they were loud and were hurting Grendels hearing or head..but he got sick of the being so loud; so Grendel is killing them off, he comes and snatches them during the night. Beowulf

hears of the news and comes to help the people of Herot. He is also challenged by Unferth, he doesnt think Beowulf is as strong as he is. Beowulf offers his army of men, they were good. They had conquered many. & Hrothgar had helped Beowulf's dad, so this is Beowulf paying Hrothgar back; I think another rising action is when Grendel's mother comes and starts killing in mourning of her son.

Metaphor-figure of speech in which a term or phrase is used for something to which it is not pplicable

CLIMAX

Falling Action

The falling action is when Beowulf kills

Grendels Mother; and they don't have to worry anymore. and everything is calmed down and the people of Herot can relax. & Beowulf is offered to the throne as king. He becomes the King of Herot.

"Grendel's fierce mother"

line 615 page 37

The climax of the story to me was when Beowulf killed Grendel and everyone thought it was over until Grendel's mom showed up and started terrorizing; so Beowulf went to Grendel's mom and had

went there to kill her; I think that was

the biggest of all because it really showed the tension between good and evil.

Alliteration-repetition of consonant sounds

Similie-

uses the words “like” or “as”

to compare one object or idea with another shows likeness

"Struggled seven long nights to survive" page 27 line 250

" The brilliant light shone, suddenly,

As though burning in that hall, and as bright as Heaven’s

Own candle"

-lines 646-648 page 38