iv part dos

The presence of monsters- There were three main ones in this book. Grendel, Grendle's mother, and the dragon. They were all very different in why they were killing people and creating chaos. Grendel didn't really seem to have any reason as to why he was going around and killing the people. It was that he was showing his strength and wanted people to fear him. It had to make him very proud that no one could kill him and he could do whatever he wanted. He terrorised the people for a long time before Beowulf showed up and was able to out power him. When they were fighting he felt as though he wasn't the most powerful for the first time. "That shepherd of evil, guardian of crime, knew at once that nowhere on earth had he met a man whose hands were harder; his mind was flooded with fear"(Raffel 34 lines 750-752). Beowulf ended up defeating him by tearing his arm off, but not killing him like he would have like to have done. This lead to peace for awhile until the monsters started showing up again so Beo and his men decided to go to where they were. Beowulf was the only one that was able to get down to were they were. This is were he met Grendel's mother. The only reason she wanted to kill him was because she was very angry with him for killing her son. Their fight was a difficult one for him and he probably would not have survived if he had not seen the sword. This fight lasted so long that the men though that he was dead and left the spot. He was able to win and also came back up with the head of Grendel to show to everyone. The last one was the dragon and he was felt like he was disrespected from having someone steal from him. This made him want to burn down everything with his fire breath. Beo heard about this after a lot of the town had been destroyed by him. The dragon almost got the best of Beowulf but thankfully Wiglaf was there to help him. After they had killed him they were able to get all of the treasures that he had hidden away in his cave. Beowulf was just able to see all of these precious things before he died because the dragon had bitten him. All of these monsters were defeated by Beowulf!