Put yourself in a position of a worrier that has no fear of nothing not even death. Beowulf is from Sweden and fears nobody because that is what he was taught. Beowulf left Sweden because a friend of his needed help. His friend is from a little place called Herot. The separation of this story is when he left his home (Sweden) to go help his friend get rid of the problems that he is having down there. He left with some of his men that he knew had no fear just like him.
The calling of Beowulf was that his friend needed his help so he left to go help his friend. The problem was that all of the king’s (Beowulf’s friend) men was getting eaten by a creature named Grendel. He was called to go and kill Grendel so that the land of the king will be safe for the people to walk around, and have no worries about anything. Beowulf does not have any fear that he is going to fight a creature that eats people because he has no fear of dieing.
When Beowulf gets there he goes and on the problem so that he could get it over with. When he gets there he comes and sees that Grendel is an ugly looking creature. They both start to fight as Beowulf finally gets it done and kill Grendel. He killed Grendel with out using a sword and he did it with no struggle. This will be the threshold of the Hero’s Journey of Beowulf, he always goes on journeys and he kills Grendel without using a sword.
Beowulf then cut Grendel’s head off and takes it back to the king so that the king can see that he has got the job done. When the king saw Beowulf he got happy because he thought that all of their problems were going to be over with. What either of them knew was that Grendel has a mom and when she found out she got very angry and started to eat the king’s men to. She takes the body of her son back to her lake and leaves it there. Now Beowulf has to get rid of the mother of Grendel and he know what he has to do because it is in his blood to kill but kill just to make the area safer to live at. Beowulf then goes down to her lake to handle this situation. This point of the story will be called the descent because he is going to Grendel’s mother’s lake and he does not know what is going to happen.
After a hard fought battle he then returns to Hrothgar and tells him that there will be no more problems for his kingdom are his people. Another victory for Beowulf and it makes the worrier happy because he has defeated the creatures and now Hrothgar’s kingdom is now safe. From now on there will be no more problem for Herot. Beowulf has been a good worrier and he likes to help the people that are in need and to solve problems in the proper way.
Now Beowulf is old and still has to face one more beast before he could rest in peace. There is a beast that is mad at one of the men of Beowulf and that beast is known to be a dragon. The dragon is killing some of his men and will not stop until he gets what he wants. Than Beowulf finally found out what had happened, one of his men stole something from the dragon and now the dragon is mad and won’t stop killing until he gets his thing back. Now Beowulf has to face this beast face to face to se if the beast will stop if the beast will not stop then they will have to fight.
He goes into the dragons cave all alone with nobody there to back him up but he is not afraid even though this will be one of his hardest tasks. He comes up to the dragon and see that the dragon is not happy. They then start to fight. After a hard fought battle Beowulf slayed the dragon but the dragon left him with some life threatening wounds and he may not live because these wounds may not heal in time for him to recover. Beowulf was to hurt to go on and ended up dieing in the cave of the dragon with his sword in his hand and with a lot of pride to know that his kingdom will not have to fear no evil dragon no more. Beowulf was a worrier not afraid of anything not even death and now it is time for Beowulf the great worrier to live as a spirit and rest in peace with honor, pride, and knowing that he created a better place for king Hrothgar’s kingdom and his people by defeating Grendel and his mother. By defeating the dragon his kingdom is safe and wealthier.
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