Hello this may seem a little odd, but this is an essay about(as the title suggests)is Beowulfs hero journey. To some he went through only 2 journeys through the impossible and completed them both. It is also arguable that he went through three and died at the end of the final journey.His conflict wrought life is a tale to be told but is just to be read today.
His seperations where very short in the text book version in fact they are barely there. You could say that the first few steps were taken out and put there for his avariciousness for fame and glory. The last one was put up that he needed to protect his people from the terrible dragon and it was his fate,but that is all they put in the text book to save space for the good action filled parts of the story so they combined all the seperation steps together and made them the last step in the seperation.So the seperation is an important part of the story but skipped for actionso high school kids would read it more on their own.
the abyss in the initiation are actually drawn out longer then should to keep the feel of depressing loneliness in the second and last one. the abyss was the longest part of the journey in the book to keep readers on the edge of their seat so when it ended it was a relief. He really doesn't have a mentor in the story ,but it is arguable that his best friend Wiegraf could be his mentor by going to impossible odds to save Beowulf .Though the mentor may have been absent the transformation isnt missing. After the first 2 monsters he changed and it showed in his old age when he was respected and humble. the reason being killing Grendel and its mom made him a god to the common man by killing 2 demons in his life. After that you really dont need to do much more in your life now do you.
His first two returns are charaterized as a joyful and triumphant one that is to be expected in the destruction of a demon that has plagued your kingdom. The third is a tearful and saddening one that ends in the death of Beowulf. his third is actually the most humane because he died and they give him the most honorable funeral service they could do in those times and raised his soul to the heavens with the funeral pyre.His creations though are his greatest in all the heroes journeys I have known because he not only brings peace to his land , but brings peace to an allies land twice in his lifetime.
This story was a great story by the fact he doesnt complete one but three heroes journeys. The last one was completed with his death but created peace in his land. So he did complete all three of his journeys and had a good life in his time. and if you want my opinoin. I typed and wrote this paper so you have my opinion, but now the question remains. What is your opinion of the story.
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