Beowulf - Hero of the Geats

Beowulf, is an epical poem that takes place during the sixth century. In this poem, Beowulf, a veritable hero of the Geats, comes to the help of Hrothgar, the nance of the Danes, whose mead h totally is fervencyed by a vicious monster cognize as Grendel. Once Beowulf kills him, Grendels breed attacks the hall and is wherefore also beaten by Beowulf. Victorious, Beowulf goes home and later becomes queer of the Geats. After ab out(a) lambert years, Beowulf overthrows a dragon, except is savagely injured in the fight. passim the poem, vengeance is portrayed by several of the characters such as Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon.\nGrendel hates nothing more than than the merriment happening in the mead hall. Grendel seeks revenge in Beowulf because of the loud, and objectionable amounts noise that has been coming from Heorot. Grendel waits for all of Hrothgars warriors to fall asleep, and because attacks the newly built mead hall. Quickly, Hrothgar and his mess retr eat from the hall, and Beowulf and his men speedily step in. When it comes to fighting, I figure myself as dangerous all day as Grendel. So it wont be a cutting bunt Ill wield to strike down him down, easily as I might, (Heaney 47) is what Beowulf says as he awaits Grendel to attack for a second time. As the night goes on, Beowulf and his men are woken up by another(prenominal) attack by the venomous Grendel. Without any weapons, Beowulf and Grendel have a battle. Once Beowulf pulls off the sleeve of Grendel, the beast attempts to go home, but cannot make it, and he tardily dies.\nGrendels mother is scarcely as heinous as her son. When Grendels mother finds out about the killing of her son, she like a shot seeks revenge. Where she is hiding, glutting on the corpse and the glorying in her escape, I cannot tell; she has taken up the feud because of resist night, when you killed Grendel (Heaney 93) just comes to show that Hrothgars warriors are expecting Grendels mother to attack. She takes ...