Beowulf Man Or Myth
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Many of Old English poems glorified a real or imaginery hero and tried to teach the values of bravery. Beowulf was written during the Anglo-Saxon period of English Literature. The Anglo-Saxon period was a time of fierce battles in which human
strength was measured by the ability to control the re ....
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.... of time. Some readers as myself feel that this characteristic seperates from the realistic nature of the story
and gives the impression that Beowulf is more like a myth than a man. So with all this in mind, in the epic Beowulf he's portrayed as almost inhumane, so was he indeed a man or merely a myth?
Beowulf is described as…"greater than life"…than anyone in the world and in order to prove himself as a hero, he has to fight against something superhuman (Donaldson 10). "Beowulf is the ....
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